Days after hundreds of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees were laid off, former CDC officials are warning it has left the agency more unprepared to keep Americans healthy and safe.

While 1,300 CDC employees initially received reduction-in-force notices on Friday, about 700 were later notified their terminations were revoked, union officials said . Some of the RIF notices had been sent to CDC employees due to a coding error, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson said.

But, about 600 staff members remained terminated.

In a press conference Wednesday, the former CDC officials, who resigned earlier this year in protest after what they described as growing political interference in the agency's scientific work, shared their concerns about th

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