Aug. 8 assault was an attack on CDC and on violence prevention
On Aug. 8, a gunman targeted CDC’s Roybal Campus in an act of violence fueled by vaccine disinformation and the vilification of federal workers. As former scientists and public health professionals in CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention, our mission was to prevent this exact kind of harm. The irony is devastating: the very experts trained to understand, interrupt and prevent this kind of violence were among those whose jobs were eliminated in the April 1 federal government reduction-in-...| American Public Health Association
