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About 10,000 people have been laid off from the US health department at the behest of its new head Robert F Kennedy Jr. Hundreds of public health workers were pictured yesterday queuing outside their offices as they waited to find out if they still had their jobs.
Those fired included senior officials at the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control.
Jeanne Marrazzo, the infectious disease institute director, was among those offered reassignment to Alaska to work for the Indian Health Service, which provides healthcare to Native Americans.
RFK Jr says his 24 per cent cut of health department staff will save $1.8 billion every year and help “make America healthy again”.
An epidemiologist told Nature the layoffs would go down as “one of the darkest days in modern scientific history”.
