{"id":6119,"date":"2025-08-15T23:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/cdc-shooting-january-6th-for-public-health\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T23:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:02:44","slug":"cdc-shooting-january-6th-for-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/cdc-shooting-january-6th-for-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: The CDC shooting was public health\u2019s Jan. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: The CDC shooting was public health\u2019s Jan. 6<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A week ago, on Aug. 8, a gunman attacked the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, firing nearly 500 rounds, breaking about 150 windows, and killing a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter had reportedly become fixated on his belief that the Covid-19 vaccine had made him and others sick, and wanted to make \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cdc-shooting-georgia-gunman-slain-officer-085d0d46cf2095193f9a65807876ebd5\">the public aware of his discontent<\/a>,\u201d according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Were it not for the blast-reinforced glass, campus security, and a considerable amount of luck, Aug. 8 would almost certainly have been the deadliest attack against health workers in world history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/15\/cdc-shooting-january-6th-for-public-health\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Colin J. Carlson and Sean Kennedy<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/15\/cdc-shooting-january-6th-for-public-health\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: The CDC shooting was public health\u2019s Jan. 6 A week ago, on Aug. 8, a gunman attacked the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, firing nearly 500 rounds, breaking about 150 windows, and killing a police officer. The shooter had reportedly become fixated on his belief that the Covid-19 vaccine had made him and others sick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,3522,2177,2143,2180],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-6119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-congres","category-donald-trump","category-first-opinion","category-public-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}