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  1. The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

    "Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"

    "I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.

    Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say

    "I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.

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