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‘Deadly consequences’: Health agencies reel from thousands of job cuts while critical research grants remain on hold

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By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — A Nobel Prize-winning scientist is still waiting on a crucial research grant from the United States government that was supposed to start weeks ago. A fired public health worker at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worries that she and her family will lose their housing as her pay runs out in mid-March. And federal agencies overseeing the nation’s attempts to control bird flu are rapidly trying to resc…

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‘Deadly consequences’: Health agencies reel from thousands of job cuts while critical research grants remain on hold

The first month of the Trump administration has brought chaos to US health agencies through mass firings, funding interruptions and communications freezes as the country battles not just the threat of bird flu but a historic measles outbreak centered in West Texas and the worst year for seasonal flu in more than a decade.

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Trump administration NIH grant cuts will hurt Maine

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Gary Friedmann represents the towns of Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Lamoine and the Cranberry Isles in the Maine House of Representatives. I recently sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to urge the immediate withdrawal of the Natio…

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