We are learning more about last week's shooting at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, which has shaken many in the field of public health.

Authorities say the 32-year-old gunman fired nearly 200 rounds at six buildings on the CDC campus.

One police officer was killed, and the suspect was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Authorities also say the gunman

believed the COVID-19 vaccine was to blame for his mental health problems, including depression

and thoughts of suicide. In the day since, CDC staff have spoken out about what they describe

as dangerous rhetoric and rising hostility. Joining us now to discuss this is Dr. Megan Rainey,

Dean of the Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Emergency Medicine. Thank you for joining

us. My pleasure. Thanks so much for having me on tonight. We have seen reporting that many CDC

staff are dreading, returning to work, many still deeply shaken after last week's shooting. From what you're

hearing, what's the general mood among health care and public health workers right now?

I've spent the weekend talking to friends and colleagues within the CDC, within state and local

public health departments, as well as within health care across the

country. And I'll say the mood is one of both fear and frustration or maybe even anger. Fear because

folks were shot at. And it is by the grace of God that only one person died on Friday evening.

Frustration and anger, because it's felt by many that this was almost inevitable, that at some point the violent rhetoric that is

experienced online, or sometimes that some of us have experienced in person being yelled at us,

was eventually going to turn into actual physical threats.

On that point at a press conference this morning, the Georgia Bureau of Investigations at a

search of the shooter's home turned up documents expressing what they described as discontent

with the COVID-19 vaccinations. Tell me more about how this rhetoric, the misinformation about vaccines

have played a role in this tragedy and have complicated the work that you and your colleagues

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