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CDC employees are being reinstated after they were part of layoffs.

The layoffs were rescinded after workers in the agency were told they would lose their jobs.

Last week, the White House budget office announced that mass layoffs of federal workers would occur.

Hundreds of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employees were reinstated after they were initially let go by the federal agency.

The New York Times and Washington Post both reported that CDC workers who were notified of layoffs on Oct. 10 included individuals on teams on infectious disease outbreaks, science and health data analysis and employee safety.

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