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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 19h

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 19h

No way to run a government. Fired. Not fired. Fired again. Not fired. Pants on fire.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 18h

Now the above firing are said to me mistakes.
To find mistakes they should look in mirror
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social · 1d

MMWR staff and 70 CDC Disease Detectives fired yesterday

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Clean Air @amoberg.bsky.social · 18h

It's a desaster

Mike Greicius @mikegreicius.bsky.social · 19h

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#publichealth
It’s so incompetent that it’s almost funny except that it isn’t funny because it’s the nation’s premier public health organization they’re fumbling around with.
Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

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Clean Air @amoberg.bsky.social · 18h

If this is real Amerika has gone evil

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 19h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 19h

Full statement issued by the Hoffman Estates Police Department. ⬇️

"All of this information can be found on our website at hoffmanestates.org."

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Clean Air @amoberg.bsky.social · 18h

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 19h

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 18h

One more note: there were many more RIFs on Friday night.

Perhaps the administration does not think of these as 'errors', and will claim that some RIFs were 'correct'.

We should assume otherwise: these RIFs are a form of political retribution that do not serve federal agency missions.

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Clean Air @amoberg.bsky.social · 18h

You are fired ⚠️

Some hours later

You are rehired 💔

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 19h

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Clean Air @amoberg.bsky.social · 18h

The got rehired this evening?!

Clean Air @amoberg.bsky.social · 18h

Warum tragen nicht alle die ganze Zeit diese einfache Form der Lufthygiene?

“Masks are are known to be one of those easy measures that we can implement to ensure the safety and the health of our health-care workforce and our overall health-care system"

www.cbc.ca/news/canad%E...

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Sourcecontrol.bsky.social 🤜❤️‍🔥🤛 Challenger @sourcecontrol.bsky.social · 18h

Hoppla- an error firing 🤪

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 19h

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Sourcecontrol.bsky.social 🤜❤️‍🔥🤛 Challenger @sourcecontrol.bsky.social · 18h

Oh boy, getting fired by error?

Please?

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 19h

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Sourcecontrol.bsky.social 🤜❤️‍🔥🤛 Challenger @sourcecontrol.bsky.social · 18h

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If it wasn't an error it's the end😪

C̶͚̃a̵̯͠s̸͌͜s̷̜̎ả̵̻n̵̥͑d̸̓ͅr̶̦̽a̵̛̠ Complex̸̗́ @amorvincitomnia.bsky.social · 19h

yes. many warned of this. We will recover if we fight these bastards back. Nihilism is a phase

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Sourcecontrol.bsky.social 🤜❤️‍🔥🤛 Challenger @sourcecontrol.bsky.social · 19h

What could go wrong? 🤡

John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 23h

www.rawstory.com/layoffs/

Horror as 'Friday night massacre' lays off entire DC office of disease experts

The Trump administration has carried out mass layoffs of federal public health officials that experts warn will leave the US dangerously unprepared to handle disease outbreaks.As reported by The New Y...

www.rawstory.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d

Fustiliarian Friday: Trump/Kennedy/GOP use the shutdown as an excuse to destroy the CDC’s elite field epidemiology team and one of the most important epidemiology journals in the world.

Gift link.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Clean Air @amoberg.bsky.social · 19h

Goodby Amerika🫡 - they won't recover ...💀

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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RV @rv-enigma.bsky.social · 2d

Der Anstieg der Covid-Zahlen (auch in den Krankenhäusern) geht jetzt sehr schnell. Einer von 100 ist mit SARS-2 infiziert.

Wer sich in diesem Jahr noch nicht hat impfen lassen, sollte das jetzt so bald wie möglich nachholen.

Deshalb ausnahmsweise eine Bitte:
Bitte teilt diese Information‼️

RV @rv-enigma.bsky.social · 2d

Covid-19 am 10.10.25: R↗️1,15-1,17

R_Berichte (FT-korr) 1,15
R_Meldungen (adj, ohne FT-Korr.) 1,17
R_Hospitalisierung: 1,17

Inkl. DZF ↘️105‼️:
Fälle (7T-M, korr): 84.000
Inzidenz: 700 (540)

Verdopplungszeit: 18-20 Tage
Infiziert: 1 von ~100

Die Grafik zeigt oben die 7T-Mittel der Fallmeldungen nach Berichtsdatum (ohne Nachmeldungen für mehr als 30 Tage zurück liegende Daten und um geschätzte Daten für Feiertage korrigiert) sowie die Fallzahl nach Meldedatum, adjustiert mit einem Nowcast der erwarteten Nachmeldungen. Außerdem ist die aus der NICHT NORMALISIERTEN Abwasser-Viruslast (derzeit wie auch normalisiert 105) berechnete Inzidenz sowie der aktuelle Dunkelzifferfaktor und die Inzidenz (nach Berichtsdatum) inkl. DZF aufgetragen.

Im unteren Bereich stehen gestrichelt R-Werte (d.h. geglättete 4-Tages-Änderungen):
Fälle nach Berichts- und Meldedatum, Viruslast (AMELAG LOESS) und ITS-Belegung.

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RV @rv-enigma.bsky.social · 1d

Covid-19 am 11.10.25: R↗️1,18

R_Berichte (FT-korr) 1,18
R_Meldungen (adj, ohne FT-Korr.) 1,39⁉️
R_Hospitalisierung: 1,17

Inkl. DZF ↘️105:
Fälle (7T-M, korr): 88.500
Inzidenz: 740 (560)

Verdopplungszeit: 17 Tage
Infiziert: 1 von ~95

Die Grafik zeigt oben die 7T-Mittel der Fallmeldungen nach Berichtsdatum (blau, ohne Nachmeldungen für mehr als 30 Tage zurück liegende Daten und um geschätzte Daten für Feiertage korrigiert) sowie die Fallzahl nach Meldedatum, adjustiert mit einem Nowcast der Nachmeldungen (rot). Außerdem ist die aus der NORMALISIERTEN Abwasser-Viruslast berechnete Inzidenz (braun gepunktet) sowie der aktuelle Dunkelzifferfaktor (schwarz gestrichelt) und die Inzidenz nach Berichtsdatum inkl. DZF (grün) aufgetragen.

Im unteren Bereich stehen gestrichelt R-Werte (d.h. geglättete 4-Tages-Änderungen):
Fälle nach Berichts- und Meldedatum, Viruslast (AMELAG zentriertes 5W-Mittel) und ITS-Belegung.

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Clean Air @amoberg.bsky.social · 1d

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hätte er die FPP doch vorher getragen, dann hätte es ihn nicht so erwischt

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TIGER is not a kitten🔥🔥🐸viruses aren't equal @algorithmus.bsky.social · 1d

www.basketball-world.news/artikel/es-w...

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TIGER is not a kitten🔥🔥🐸viruses aren't equal @algorithmus.bsky.social · 1d

Gordon Herbert kämpft mit einer hartnäckigen Erkältung.

Auf der PK erschien der Kanadier noch mit heißem Tee. 2 Tage später, beim EuroLeague-Spiel gegen Zalgiris Kaunas, wirkte er noch stark angeschlagen.
Zum Schutze der anderen trug er eine FFP2-Maske.

www.basketball-world.news/artikel/es-w...

Basketball - "Es war mir peinlich": Herbert wütet nach Heim-Fiasko gegen Kaunas

Im Heimspiel gegen das noch ungeschlagene Zalgiris Kaunas haben die Bayern am Freitag wohl ihr schlechtestes Saisonspiel bislang abgeliefert. Am Ende kratzten die Litauer an einem Vorsprung von 30 Zäh...

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Clean Air @amoberg.bsky.social · 2d

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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 3d

#UKHSAVirusWatch is back, a summary of our weekly winter surveillance report .🦠🧵
This week's data shows an increase in COVID-19 activity, which is circulating at medium levels. Flu activity has also increased, particularly in those aged 15 to 24, but remains at baseline levels.

Graph showing COVID-19 positive tests rising steadily from spring 2025 after a low in early 2025. Data from October 2024 to October 2025, England only.

Graph showing flu-positive tests peaking sharply in winter 2024–25 before declining and then beginning to rise again in autumn 2025. Data from October 2024 to October 2025, England only.

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