The CDC is barely hanging on

Thirty percent of the Centers for Disease Control staff has either resigned, retired or been laid off. Apoorva Mandavilli, science and global health reporter for The New York Times, joins guest host Paige Phelps to discuss the once-revered CDC that is now a skeleton of its former self, what that means for both domestic and international public health responses, and what that means for the general public now that flu seasons is here. Her article is “'Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission