The CDC employs about 13,000 people, the vast majority of them in metro Atlanta. The cuts, which account for about one-tenth of the agency’s workforce, were first reported by The Associated Press.

CDC backtracks on layoffs, rehires more than 400 people. Around half of those employees are in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, about the CDC's new guidelines on COVID vaccines for kids and pregnant women.

HHS plans to fold the CDC's chronic disease center into the new Administration for a Healthy America. Experts fear for coordination with local health departments, among other things.