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GMA Network
11-08-2025
- Health
- GMA Network
US CDC tightens safety measures after gunman kills officer in Atlanta
A source briefed on the matter told Reuters that 189 rounds of gunfire had hit the CDC buildings during the attack, 85 windows were broken and over 100 doors destroyed, among other damage. REUTERS/ Tami Chappell/ File photo The U.S. CDC has tightened security following an attack Friday on its Atlanta headquarters that left a police officer and the gunman dead, including having most employees work from home this week and removing vehicle decals showing where they work. The union representing workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the violence "compounds months of mistreatment, neglect, and vilification that CDC staff have endured," citing reports that the gunman blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal. Since being named Health and Human Services Secretary earlier this year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has targeted vaccine policy, and in May withdrew a federal recommendation for COVID shots for pregnant women and healthy children. Kennedy toured the CDC site on Monday, where agency security pointed out shattered windows across multiple buildings, including the main guard booth, HHS said in a statement. He also visited the DeKalb County Police Department and met privately with the widow of Officer David Rose, who gave his life in the line of duty. "No one should face violence while working to protect the health of others," Kennedy Jr. said in a post on X on Saturday. HHS said it continues to support CDC personnel and additional safety and security measures are being put in place ahead of their return to the office. A source briefed on the matter told Reuters that 189 rounds of gunfire had hit the CDC buildings during the attack, 85 windows were broken and over 100 doors destroyed, among other damage. Both local and federal law enforcement are "conducting intensive monitoring of all potential threats to CDC and its staff," the agency's acting Chief Operating Officer Christa Capozzola said in an email to staff over the weekend that was seen by Reuters. She said work was under way to clean up and repair extensive damage to the CDC's campus by the shooter who, according to the investigation so far, acted alone. An "all-staff" meeting on Tuesday will become a virtual-only event, CDC Director Susan Monarez said in a separate email seen by Reuters. She said teams were working to determine "our workplace posture" moving forward. The agency's safety division asked employees to remove CDC-identifying decals from their vehicles, an email seen by Reuters showed. The Atlanta Police Department referred calls to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which did not have an immediate comment. — Reuters
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Introducing: The David Frum Show
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube A recent infographic published by Media Matters depicted America's political-podcast space as dominated by extremist voices, mostly far-right, a few far-left. Yet most of us are levelheaded people. Most of us want insights, not insults. We want to invest our time to feel smarter, not angrier. We want to renew our ideals and remember together that America's democracy has always proved stronger than its enemies and doubters. On April 9, The Atlantic and I will launch a new video podcast called The David Frum Show. It will post every Wednesday, on YouTube and anywhere you listen to podcasts, with eminent guests from the worlds not only of politics, but of economics, medicine, and history. I hope every viewer and listener will find that the show offers the most informed and entertaining conversations of the day—sparkled with enough humor to brighten these dark times. In today's media, truth is often hard to find. Lies are everywhere—and too often for free. I hope all who seek something better will feel the warmth of welcome at The David Frum Show. Watch the teaser here: (Video photo credits: Robert Alexander / Getty; Tami Chappell / AFP / Getty; Leonardo Munoz / AFP / Getty; Jeremy Hogan / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty; Bob Grannis / Getty; Bettmann / Getty; Drew Angerer / AFP / Getty; J. Countess / Getty; Kevin Dietsch / Getty; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty; Samuel Corum / Getty) Article originally published at The Atlantic
New York Times
13-02-2025
- Health
- New York Times
How Trump Is Muzzling the C.D.C.
Image The headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Credit... Tami Chappell/Reuters To the Editor: As former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public health professionals, we are alarmed by the Trump administration's recent actions, which severely restrict the agency's communications and have compromised its ability to protect the health of the American people. Late last month, the C.D.C. was ordered to cease communications with the World Health Organization and other agencies to comply with an executive order from President Trump. The C.D.C. and the W.H.O. have worked closely together since they were created in the 1940s to improve the health of Americans and save lives. That work has included eliminating smallpox, nearly eliminating polio, stopping the first SARS epidemic, containing Ebola, mitigating the Covid-19 pandemic and protecting people from bird flu — to name only a few accomplishments. But now, for example, the C.D.C. will not have input into the W.H.O.'s meeting deciding which influenza strains should be targeted by next year's flu shot. Domestically, C.D.C. employees are now severely restricted from communicating with anyone outside the government and from publishing anything that includes words like 'gender, L.G.B.T.Q., biologically male and biologically female,' and have been ordered to retract and revise existing publications using those words. Certain C.D.C. websites with medical recommendations for practitioners and health officials have gone dark. Witness the C.D.C.'s recent posting and immediate deleting of data about bird flu spread from cats to people (news article, Feb. 8). Many people are not aware of the work the C.D.C. does because it focuses on prevention, and it usually works: We don't see diseases and injuries that did not occur as a result of those interventions. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
