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The War on Public Health Continues

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Friday’s layoffs announcements at CDC targeted infectious disease control

During the COVID outbreak, President Trump said, “If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”  That philosophy seems to have taken hold during his second term in office. On Friday, the Administration fired more than a thousand CDC workers, incljding the scientists and doctors who provide key information and expertise about infectious disease outbreaks.  The effect is to kneecap the government’s capacity to detect and track outbreaks.  

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In Support of Public Health Federalism

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Reactionary State Responses to COVID-19 (and Other Threats to Public Health) Don’t Mean Federalism Is For Suckers

For decades, “states’ rights” has been a rallying cry of the right wing. Most Americans are familiar with the dynamics that required the federalization of civil rights law, both in the 1860s and again in the 1960s, the protection of much of our nation’s federal lands, and the national crises that necessitated the federal government …

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