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Almost 200 employees were called to work the nation of the top public health agency, only two weeks after receiving the break notice.
On Tuesday, some disease control and prevention centers (CDC) are fired last month sent by email with the subject, “Read this email immediately”, according to the current and former CDC Employees.
Two federal health officials who are familiar, but were not authorized to talk about it and talked about the state of anonymity, he said that about 180 people received the reinforcement emails.
The message said that “after further examination and consideration” notification of termination from 15. It was abolished and the employee was deleted to return to work on Wednesday.
“You should go back to duty under your previous work schedule. We apologize for any disorders that it may have caused that,” he said.
It is not clear how much they returned to work on Wednesday or whether the employees will be spared from further widespread cuts expected soon in the beginning of government agencies.
The CDC Is the latest federal agency trying to coax the workers shortly after they were fired as part of the president Donald Trump‘S and billionaire Elon Musk“Cost purification.
Similar reversals are made among employees responsible for the supervision of a medical device, food safety, bird flu response, nuclear weapons and national parks.
The Atlanta-based CDC is charged for the protection of Americans from outbreaks and other public threats. Before reducing the job, the Agency had about 13,000 employees.
Last month, Trump officials for CDC told the CDC that almost 1,300 trial workers would let the agency. This quickly changed quickly, as a number that actually got an interruption notifications 700 to 750.
With 180 more people who have now said they can return, the actual number of employees of the CDC, it seems to be repealed sometime around 550. But federal health officials did not confirm any specifics.
Health and human services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The last month promised “radical transparency” in the department, but HHS officers did not give details on the changes of CDC staff and did not respond to e-mail on Tuesday and Wednesday. Agency spokesman, Andrew Nixon, previously told AP just that the CDC had more employees at full working times after a reduction of work than done before COVID-19 pandemic.
Those who received the e-mail re-included respondents in two joint programs – a two-year training that prepares recent graduates for entering public health work through the field experience and a laboratory program that brings doctoral-holding experts.
The American Senator Raphael Warnock celebrated the re-establishment, but he said it was not enough.
“Today’s announcement is welcome, but until all fired employees of the CDC return, public health and the national security of our country will continue to be at risk,” Warnock, Georgia Democrat, on Wednesday in the statement.