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Free bloodbaths today at HHS, come on down!
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https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/fede...secretary/

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across public health and science agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.

Senior officials were informed in meetings Friday morning that roughly 5,200 people on probationary employment — recent hires — across agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be fired that afternoon, according to sources briefed on the meetings. CDC leadership was told the Atlanta-based agency would lose about 1,300 workers. The numbers at the NIH are not clear, but exceptions are being made for certain probationary employees, according to a memo viewed by STAT...

In addition to the probationary workers, an unspecified number of contract workers at the CDC and other Health and Human Services agencies have been informed over the course of the past week that their jobs had been terminated, including dozens at the Vaccine Research Center housed at NIH. Many jobs at these agencies are done by contract workers...

Head of ARPA-H and Biden appointee Renee Wegrzyn told staff Friday morning that she was fired, a source told STAT. The agency, established in 2022 by Biden to work with the private sector on breakthrough medical technology, employs less than 200 workers. Because of the agency’s newness, most employees are considered probationary and could be targeted for layoffs.

...Experts have warned that mass layoffs or resignations could severely disrupt work at the FDA and other agencies. Several senior leaders left even before Kennedy’s confirmation — top NIH officials Larry Tabak and Michael Lauer announced plans to leave earlier this week. Patrizia Cavazzoni, the top drug regulator at the FDA, left in January. Others worry that policies like interrupting grant reviews and slashing overhead research payments will cause a broader brain drain across U.S. academia.



Supposedly, 500+ federal workers were fired today from one agency that I work with.

I personally know at least half dozen federal workers who were fired today.

Guessing that I'll be hearing about many more in the coming days.
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So they’re firing the employees that are paid the least?
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I can't wait to see next month's unemployment figures except that the workers who compile those numbers were laid off.
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There's a bit of a problem developing. If he closes all these departments and sends all these people home, there won't be anyone available to implement the Leader's Great Vision.
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Acer wrote:
There's a bit of a problem developing. If he closes all these departments and sends all these people home, there won't be anyone available to implement the Leader's Great Vision.

They can just get the Dear Leader’s vision from reading his little black book.
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NPR announced today that NIH lost 1500 employees, including nearly all of the nurses at the Clinical Center (hospital/research center).

It's a massive building with hundreds of patients present and thousands of research studies ongoing at any given time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_I...cal_Center

Since the hospital's opening in 1953, NIH scientists have worked with volunteer patients to create medical innovations. Clinical Center successes include pioneering the cure of cancerous solid tumors with chemotherapy; the use of nitroglycerin to treat heart attacks; identifying a genetic component in schizophrenia; conducting the first successful replacement of a mitral valve to treat heart disease; and the creation of blood tests to identify both Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and hepatitis.

In October 2014, Clinical Center staff successfully treated one of the first few Ebola virus cases in the United States.

The Clinical Center has been a leader in the “bench-to-bedside” concept. Its specialized hospital design places patient care units in close proximity to research laboratories. This model supports interaction and collaboration among clinical researchers.
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Tiangou wrote:
NPR announced today that NIH lost 1500 employees, including nearly all of the nurses at the Clinical Center (hospital/research center).

It's a massive building with hundreds of patients present and thousands of research studies ongoing at any given time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_I...cal_Center

Since the hospital's opening in 1953, NIH scientists have worked with volunteer patients to create medical innovations. Clinical Center successes include pioneering the cure of cancerous solid tumors with chemotherapy; the use of nitroglycerin to treat heart attacks; identifying a genetic component in schizophrenia; conducting the first successful replacement of a mitral valve to treat heart disease; and the creation of blood tests to identify both Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and hepatitis.

In October 2014, Clinical Center staff successfully treated one of the first few Ebola virus cases in the United States.

The Clinical Center has been a leader in the “bench-to-bedside” concept. Its specialized hospital design places patient care units in close proximity to research laboratories. This model supports interaction and collaboration among clinical researchers.

Thanks. 1300 at CDC, 1500 at NIH

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-healt...trump-doge
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