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

A panel of experts that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy will not meet as previously scheduled next week. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was slated to meet in Atlanta from Feb.

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 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.

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.

Public health employees and contractors who lost their jobs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta on Friday to put a face on the mass terminations and demand that state officials speak up for them with the Trump administration.

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.

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)

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

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

State Democrats gathered at the state Capitol on Friday to address the recent layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Trump administration ordered the removal of all probationary employees from the Atlanta-based agency.