The news is quite amusing, isn’t it? The nation’s premier biomedical research agency has become a ‘downsizing paradise’ overnight, with scientists and doctors not immune to Trump’s ‘streamlining government’ ax. The young researchers who were once seen as promising have seen their futures casually erased, one wonders if there was a surplus of research outcomes in some department. And the ‘epidemic detectives’ at the CDC, though seemingly spared, the alumni’s anger seems unlikely to stop the next round of layoffs.
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