Additional comments,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43052910 ("CDC cuts expected to decimate Epidemic Intelligence Service (statnews.com)", 58 comments)
Cautionary tale: Be sure you omit several words from your next Federal grant.
Taxpayers are tightening their belt(s).
The private health companies need to hire these folks en masse to a jointly owned company and provide a contract disease surveillance service to CDC. But they probably make more money if people get sick. The whole reason for public health spending right there.
What a fertile ground the US becomes for Russian and Chinese agencies testing bioweapons.
Why are half of CDC epidemic intelligence staff hired in 2024?
Title is: RFK Jr. Just Kneecapped the CDC on His First Day
How is this related to Hacker News overall? No idea. People keep posting politics here with no reason.
Anyways, this is a good thing if you want to clean up the mess from very long time, regardless of the party.
This, Kennedy, attacks on Obamacare: the 1% culling the herd ? Certainly the monied class will in any scenario retain access to decent, science-based health care.