At least 600 CDC employees being terminated in US, union says | Health News

The sackings come as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr pushes to significantly downsize department.

At least 600 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States are receiving permanent termination notices in the wake of a recent court decision that protected some CDC employees from layoffs but not others.

The notices went out this week, and many people have not yet received them, according to the American Federation of Government…