Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

Center for Disease Control are being let go by the Trump administration, threatening public health and science.

Kennedy, a vicious opponent of vaccines and public health more broadly, is rapidly fulfilling his campaign promise to “give infectious disease a break for about eight years.”

The Trump administration has laid off approximately 1,270 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, amounting to nearly 10% of the agency's workforce. Among those dismissed were half of the agency's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers,

Nearly half of an elite US epidemiology program known as "disease detectives" were dismissed by the Trump administration in a blow to public health efforts.