Analysis is insufficient – it does not include hundreds either Even a thousand workers who received dismissal notifications but remain on administrative vacation.
No health agency has lost, and some important units have lost more than 1 out of 5 workers. 15% of their employees have lost the centers for control and prevention of diseases responsible for public health; National Institute of Health, The largest sponsor of biomedical research In the world 16%; And the management of nutrition and medicines, which provides the safety of most of what goes into the bodies of people – from child formula to cancer to the thigh – 21%.
Thousands of these employees were fired or reduced contracts, while some redeemed ransom or retired before expected. The violation survived the brain drain of epic proportions, revealed Propublica, having lost senior leaders who stand for some of the largest health care initiatives as a rapid deployment of the COVID-19 vaccine.
A lot of incisions contradicted what the administration said about its priorities.
The secretary who has questioned the safety of the vaccine Dozens of regulators who are working to make vaccines are pushed out. Although he announced a new era in the fight against chronic illness, he reduced the center dedicated to this goal.
Division leaders and officers have stated propublica that the reductions will conduct their agencies to neglect their duties: federal researchers will conduct less clinical trials and research, regulators will carry out less or less testing of egg farms and Foreign drug factoriesAnd health care experts will be less ready to combat the outbreaks of deadly viruses. Many former and current workers will only speak anonymously with the packages of exit and exit.
HHS did not dispute the proopublica analysis and did not answer the questions about the consequences of reducing thousands of scientists, health care professionals and security inspectors. HHS also did not answer our questions about why it does not share the data reduction. A press secretary of the department said the idea that Kennedy was weakening public health is “dishonest”.
“Yes, we made cuts – bureaucratic bureaucracy that has long been accountable,” the press secretary said in an e -mail. “At the same time, we are working on the redirection of resources to science, which has a measuring impact, restores the trust of society and helps to make America healthy again.”
Former Health Secretary Xavier Berer, who served as President Joseph Biden before this year, called “Cress”.
“Public health is not a luxury is the main function of the government,” he said. “This baked experience can leave us dangerously exposed. Years will be needed to create a professional workforce with technical knowledge and public confidence that requires these roles. Once you lose it, it is not easy to come back.”
