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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The CDC Under Fire

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Two weeks ago, a gunman fired over 500 bullets at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention building in Atlanta. Between the anti-public health rhetoric coming from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the top, personnel cuts and firings, and now a literal shooting, many employees are reaching their breaking point.  

 

Guest: Lauren Weber, health science accountability reporter for the Washington Post.


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0:00.0

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0:02.0

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0:21.5

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0:26.9

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0:34.5

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0:54.4

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0:57.9

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0:58.9

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1:03.0

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1:05.1

It excludes vehicles and business sellers.

1:17.3

Not long after the shooting at the Centers for Disease Control on August 8th,

1:20.1

Lauren Weber traveled there to talk to workers.

1:31.3

Even just standing on the street corner, you could see the bolt holes in a federal building, which is just a really striking visual.

1:35.9

Lauren is a health and science accountability reporter at the Washington Post.

1:42.2

She'd just been to CDC headquarters in June, but after the shooting, the scene was strikingly different. In front of the bullets-scarred building,

1:44.9

there was a makeshift memorial to David Rose,

1:47.7

the police officer who'd been killed.

1:50.2

There were all these heartfelt messages written on it.

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