"The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic."

MMWR has been an important public health publication for decades.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/trump-administration-cdc-layoffs.html

[Edit: this was a cock-up. 🤦
"workers who produce Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications." https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/cdc-morbidity-and-mortality-weekly-report-staff-fired/]

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