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Respiratory weather report for New York: Covid levels low as flu and RSV rise

HEALTHBEAT

Marisa Donnelly’s community public health forecast in your inbox a day early. I want to start this week’s YLE New York by acknowledging the uncertainties and anxieties around what the election results mean for public health in the United States, and by recommitting to our YLE mission. That won’t change.

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CDC Firings Undermine Public Health Work Far Beyond Washington

KFF Health News

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources. That was far from its only purpose.

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CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. The programs are designed to cultivate a new generation of public health leaders, many of whom have gone on to work at the CDC. The terminated CDC employees helped prevent and respond to outbreaks such as dengue fever and the flu.