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A selection of emails received by employees of the CDC
What it’s like to be a public-health worker or scientist at the start of Trump 2
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Editor’s note: Here is a selection of correspondence shared with The Economist by employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They give a sense of what it has been like for scientists trying to do their jobs at the start of Donald Trump’s second term. We have redacted names and some other details to protect the identities of sources.