Overview

• Hundreds of termination notices were rescinded within hours after roughly 1,300 CDC employees were told they were being laid off, with counts of reversals and final cuts still inconsistent across reports.
• Reinstated personnel include leaders of the measles response, experts assigned to an Ebola outbreak in Congo, members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, and staff who produce the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
• An HHS spokesman said employees selected for reduction in force were designated non-essential by their divisions and described the moves as closing wasteful or duplicative entities.
• Some units are still reported as cut, including the CDC’s Washington office and parts of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, according to internal communications described by staff and former officials.
• The CDC actions are part of a broader plan disclosed during the shutdown to eliminate more than 4,000 federal positions across multiple agencies.