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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Wellness Unmasked Weekly Rundown: CDC Chaos and Hostage Trauma

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Daily News, Politics

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Nicole Saphier examines two major health and humanitarian crises. She begins with the harrowing return of hostages from the Middle East, detailing their extreme malnutrition and psychological trauma. Dr. Saphier then turns to the latest CDC debacle — where a “coding error” resulted in the mass layoff of 1,300 public health workers during a growing measles outbreak.

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0:00.0

What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

0:04.0

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

0:10.7

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0:14.1

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0:19.3

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0:22.7

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0:32.6

Welcome to Wellness on Mass.

0:34.3

I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, and this is your weekly rundown.

0:37.0

Well, it has been

0:37.8

quite the week. We have seen incredible historic things happening. One thing that we also saw

0:43.7

coming out of the Middle East peace deals are the return of the remaining hostages. There have been

0:50.5

recounts of malnutrition, starvation, targeted starvation for psychological terror.

0:58.4

It's going to take a long time for these hostages to recover, but I am happy that they're

1:03.2

receiving the medical care they need, and they are home, and they are on their way to recovery.

1:08.0

We're going to talk about two other things for this week's weekly rundown.

1:11.8

Earlier this month, chaos hit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when roughly

1:16.5

1,300 employees were abruptly laid off. This included epidemiologists, immunization experts,

1:23.3

and many receiving notices while the government is still navigating a shutdown.

1:32.0

But within days, the backlash was swift, facing mounting pressure.

1:37.5

Federal health officials have reversed course, reinstating about 700 of those positions, but still leaving roughly 600 people without jobs.

1:41.5

Now, the administration has since called the incident a coding error, but whether

1:45.3

or not that's true, the consequences clearly are undeniable for days, key programs, including the

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