The clown car rolls on
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Some of the Department of Health and Human Services employees fired through reduction-in-force notices Friday are being rehired, according to two people familiar with the details.
The two people, an HHS official and an employee granted anonymity to speak about internal personnel decisions, said that many employees who received reduction-in-force notices will or already have been informed they will not be terminated. The two said that an unspecified number of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were mistakenly fired through a “coding error.”
Those being rehired, they said, are staff who work on the critical Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the director’s office of the Global Health Center and staff working on the measles response and Ebola outbreak response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The HHS official and employee declined to provide a specific number of staff to be rehired.
Additionally, many of the fellows in the Laboratory Leadership Service — who work on lab safety and testing accuracy — are being rehired, said a current CDC employee granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The employee also said that many of the Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — who investigate disease outbreaks — also had their reduction-in-force notices rescinded. A former CDC official said that Sara Patterson, acting director of the Public Health Infrastructure Center, was rehired.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/11/what-we-know-about-the-cdc-reduction-in-force-00604549
