Roughly 700 employees are believed to be impacted by the layoffs mandated by the current administration's Department of Government Efficiency.

It’s been exactly five years on Sunday since the first COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Georgia. The cases were announced on March 2, 2020, almost six weeks after Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first U.

It was a week ago that somewhere between 700 to 1,300 CDC employees were laid off in the name of government efficiency.

The Trump administration fired 1,300 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week. Advocates for the world health agency staged a protest outside the Atlanta-based headquarters.

Hundreds of employees at the Atlanta-based CDC have been laid off in the latest move by the department of government efficiency. The employees worked in the disease detectors department. They were notified via emails of being laid off due to poor performance.

The cluster of medical facilities in the city around Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention carry prestige. They feel under attack.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was slated to meet in Atlanta from Feb. 26 to 28 — the first gathering since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as Health and Human Services secretary.

Demonstrators protest the mass firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees in front of the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Feb. 18. (Arvin Temkar/Tribune News Service)

The CDC expects roughly 11,000 to show up at its Atlanta offices daily. That will include about 5,800 at the Roybal Campus near Emory.

Atlanta officials see an opportunity for state and local governments to hire ex-CDC and other federal workers.

The shock waves are spreading after more than 1,000 employees at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were fired over the weekend.

The first gathering in Atlanta of the "Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices" under Donald Trump's new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was canceled. This is a serious concern for Dr.