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Government shutdown means many CDC experts are skipping a pivotal meeting on infectious disease
The longest federal shutdown has halted CDC research and forced missed conferences amid surging infectious diseases, with the agency losing 25% of its workforce, officials said.
- CDC researchers were forced to skip a major infectious disease conference due to the government shutdown, missing critical discussions on threats like measles and whooping cough.
- The CDC typically sends scores of researchers to the IDWeek conference, but only around 10 CDC scientists were listed as speakers this year.
- The CDC's absence comes as infectious disease experts are in high demand, with new threats constantly emerging and the government trying to downsize the agency's workforce.
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CDC Experts Forced to Skip Pivotal Infectious Disease Meeting Due to Shutdown
(MedPage Today) -- CDC researchers are being forced to skip a pivotal conference on infectious diseases this week due to the government shutdown, missing out on high-level discussions not long after surges in measles and whooping cough hit the...
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Government shutdown means many CDC experts are skipping a pivotal meeting on infectious disease
An annual conference about infectious diseases is seeing a dramatic attendance decline, in part because Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts can’t participate.
Covering the government shutdown’s impact on health agencies and policy
I was working on a story a few weeks ago about newly published data from the CDC so I reached out, through multiple channels, to interview one of the lead researchers. I was so close to getting that interview, until I was told the call with the researcher couldn’t be scheduled until further notice because of the federal government shutdown. This might sound familiar to those of you who are reaching out to federal agencies to report in any capaci…
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