SACRAMENTO, the United States, April 18 (Xinhua) -- The abrupt downsizing of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) could be more than an internal shake-up, but a direct threat to the nation's health, according to a report of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published online Friday.
On April 1, about 2,400 CDC employees received surprise emails telling them they had been terminated as part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Workforce Optimization Initiative, according to the JAMA Medical News report.
