Confusion rules in one corner of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention whose purpose is the pursuit of certainty.

The National Center for Health Statistics plans and disseminates research informing public health policies from food to oral health to environmental exposures. It may be best known for reports that rely on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, whose future is now a question mark after the people who make it happen were among the roughly 1,300 who received layoff notices on Oct. 10. Nearly 600 of those reductions in force were reversed, but a small corps of planners in that division were not among them.

Or so it appears. They have not been able to access their work email accounts, and not just because of the federal government shutdown, sources told ST

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