What Next: TBD | The CDC Under Fire

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 27 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. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.7	Not long after the shooting at the Centers for Disease Control on August 8th,
1:00.0	Lauren Weber traveled there to talk to workers.
1:03.0	Even just sitting, standing on the street corner, you could see the bolt holes in a federal building,
1:10.0	which is just a really striking visual.
1:14.4	Lauren is a health and science accountability reporter at the Washington Post.
1:18.9	She'd just been to CDC headquarters in June, but after the shooting, the scene was strikingly
1:24.6	different. In front of the bullets guard building, there was a makeshift memorial to David Rose,
1:30.0	the police officer who'd been killed.
1:32.3	There were all these heartfelt messages written on it.
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