The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has its headquarters in Atlanta.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have slipped from the headlines, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still be concerned about the damage caused to the agency by President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Recently, the CDC was in the Trump administration’s crosshairs again last month, when there was a “Friday night massacre” in which hundreds of scientists were laid off. A day later, however, most of them received notices stating that they weren’t being let go after all – another example of the utter incompetence of this administration and a “substantial procedural lapse,” as the New York Times put it.

“Among those wrongly dismissed were

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