Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said many of the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is set to lose nearly 1,300 probationary employees—about 10% of its ...

Almost half of the probationary workers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others at the National Institutes of Health are being forced out as President Donald Trump overhauls ...

Those workers make about one-tenth of CDC's total staff, according to the report. The verbal notice came from the U.S.

In all, around 1,270 probationary workers were slated to be let go from the agency out of 2,800 recent hires and promotions. The cuts amount to around 1 in 10 of the CDC's staff, though it is ...

Probationary periods also are applied to veteran ... the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a meeting with CDC leaders, according to a federal official who was at the meeting.