Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #112

[sds71]

Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Dozens of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1976833075515666690

 

[Betty P]

Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Dozens of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1976833075515666690

They’re so ignorant in the WH, they don’t realize how dangerous this is. Why would you not want to track disease and mortality rates for various causes?

The stupidity of those making these decisions is beyond comprehension. Never in US history have such terrible decisions been made.

 

[Inthedetails]

They’re so ignorant in the WH, they don’t realize how dangerous this is. Why would you not want to track disease and mortality rates for various causes?

The stupidity of those making these decisions is beyond comprehension. Never in US history have such terrible decisions been made.

Willful ignorance seems to spread even faster than covid.

jmopinion

 

[Warwick1991]

Covid vaccine access update here in Florida...

I was able to obtain the updated Covid vaccine here in Florida this week. I was worried about access, but I was able to get the Pfizer vaccine that I wanted this week. The local CVS and Walgreens did not have Pfizer vaccines, but fortunately the pharmacy of a local Publix supermarket offered it.

I'm over 65, so I don't know whether someone younger would be able to get a vaccine without a prescription. I think the state pharmacy board says pharmacists can administer the vaccine without a prescription. I will try and find out how younger people are affected by the new policies.

At first, no pharmacy would offer a Covid vaccine at all. Then CVS stepped into the void gingerly by offering the Moderna mNEXSPIKE to people over 65. Now it appears that more pharmacies are offering Covid vaccines.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second checkup of the year

The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

www.nbcnews.com

...Barbabella said Trump, 79, received the flu shot and a Covid vaccine booster “in preparation for upcoming international travel.” Trump is scheduled to leave for the Middle East on Sunday after helping secure a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas this week.

Covid shots have become harder to get under the Trump administration. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its Covid vaccine guidance on Monday, limiting its recommendation for the shots only to people 65 or older or those with an underlying health condition — and only after they consult doctors, nurses or pharmacists. That change comes after many states had set their own guidance on vaccines, resulting in a complex landscape with a patchwork of different vaccine policies, making it harder to find the shot depending on where a person lives...

 

[Sundog]

Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second checkup of the year

The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

www.nbcnews.com

...Barbabella said Trump, 79, received the flu shot and a Covid vaccine booster “in preparation for upcoming international travel.” Trump is scheduled to leave for the Middle East on Sunday after helping secure a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas this week.

Glad to hear it. With international travel and being over 65, getting the shots is a good idea. The timing seems right with the usual fall spread of flu and covid.

 

[Inthedetails]

Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Dozens of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1976833075515666690

Scrambling to hire some back. How efficient.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to disease outbreaks and running an influential journal. Officials said the mistaken dismissals were being rescinded.

www.nytimes.com

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Trump administration reverses layoffs for some CDC staff

An official said the employees who received incorrect notifications were never separated from the agency and were notified that they aren't subject to the reduction in force.

www.nbcnews.com

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Saturday reversed some layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after hundreds of scientists received “incorrect notifications” that they were laid off during the government shutdown, according to an official familiar with the matter.

“The employees who received incorrect notifications were never separated from the agency and have all been notified that they are not subject to the reduction in force,” the official told NBC News. “This was due to a glitch in the system.”...

 

[303gmf]

Trump administration reverses layoffs for some CDC staff

An official said the employees who received incorrect notifications were never separated from the agency and were notified that they aren't subject to the reduction in force.

www.nbcnews.com

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Saturday reversed some layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after hundreds of scientists received “incorrect notifications” that they were laid off during the government shutdown, according to an official familiar with the matter.

“The employees who received incorrect notifications were never separated from the agency and have all been notified that they are not subject to the reduction in force,” the official told NBC News. “This was due to a glitch in the system.”...

Glitch? Interesting term

 

[Inthedetails]

Veterans Research and Education Foundation of St. Louis reports that the 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine was associated with lower risks of COVID-19–related emergency visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in a national cohort of U.S. veterans.

Veterans study finds updated COVID-19 shot reduces hospital visits and death

Veterans Research and Education Foundation of St. Louis reports that the 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine was associated with lower risks of COVID-19–related emergency visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in a national cohort of U.S. veterans.

medicalxpress.com

 

[Gemmie]

Late Friday night more than 1,000 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were sent an email saying they had been let go due to reduction-in-force (RIF) efforts at the end of the second week of the federal government shutdown.

Some, however, were mistakenly fired and were rehired the next day, according to sources close to the situation.

MMWR staff fired, then apparently rehired​

On social media sites and news sites, anonymous tipsters told reporters that included in the RIF firings were 70 disease detectives in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, the editors of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the entire staff of the CDC's Washington, DC, office, and the official in charge of measles response.

But by Saturday morning, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had rehired approximately 700 of the 1,300 fired employees, including the editors of MMWR and Athalia Christie, MPH, the incident commander for the measles response. An HHS official told the media that some of the firings had been mistakenly made through a "coding error."

Chaos following mass firings, rehirings at CDC

www.cidrap.umn.edu

 

[Sundog]

Late Friday night more than 1,000 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were sent an email saying they had been let go due to reduction-in-force (RIF) efforts at the end of the second week of the federal government shutdown.

Some, however, were mistakenly fired and were rehired the next day, according to sources close to the situation.

MMWR staff fired, then apparently rehired​

On social media sites and news sites, anonymous tipsters told reporters that included in the RIF firings were 70 disease detectives in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, the editors of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the entire staff of the CDC's Washington, DC, office, and the official in charge of measles response.

But by Saturday morning, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had rehired approximately 700 of the 1,300 fired employees, including the editors of MMWR and Athalia Christie, MPH, the incident commander for the measles response. An HHS official told the media that some of the firings had been mistakenly made through a "coding error."

Chaos following mass firings, rehirings at CDC

www.cidrap.umn.edu

Glad they got it straightened out.

 

[Teche]

Late Friday night more than 1,000 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were sent an email saying they had been let go due to reduction-in-force (RIF) efforts at the end of the second week of the federal government shutdown.

Some, however, were mistakenly fired and were rehired the next day, according to sources close to the situation.

MMWR staff fired, then apparently rehired​

On social media sites and news sites, anonymous tipsters told reporters that included in the RIF firings were 70 disease detectives in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, the editors of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the entire staff of the CDC's Washington, DC, office, and the official in charge of measles response.

But by Saturday morning, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had rehired approximately 700 of the 1,300 fired employees, including the editors of MMWR and Athalia Christie, MPH, the incident commander for the measles response. An HHS official told the media that some of the firings had been mistakenly made through a "coding error."

Chaos following mass firings, rehirings at CDC

www.cidrap.umn.edu

I guess it’s a ‘glitch’ in the system. lol!

 

[Inthedetails]

Glad they got it straightened out.

After stressing out a workforce that's been demoralized in recent months.

jmopinion

 

[Gemmie]

After stressing out a workforce that's been demoralized in recent months.

jmopinion

And pretty close to the gift giving holiday which must have added additional stress.

 

[Betty P]

Glitch? Interesting term

Idiots in charge seems more accurate. They probably have a few computer geeks managing the shut-down. That’s the last thing we heard about during the DOGE mess.

 

[303gmf]

Idiots in charge seems more accurate. They probably have a few computer geeks managing the shut-down. That’s the last thing we heard about during the DOGE mess.

Doge/Elon mess is right, village idiot in charge and CDC functioning under duress, happy fall y’all

 

[Betty P]

Scrambling to hire some back. How efficient.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to disease outbreaks and running an influential journal. Officials said the mistaken dismissals were being rescinded.

www.nytimes.com

Interesting how some leaders and media folk suddenly see the need to fund scientific research and health care when it involves deadly communicable diseases (Ebola) that they might catch. If its just some kids getting measles or polio, its different.