ATLANTA, Ga. — Hundreds of former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees who were laid off this year may be reinstated soon.
Officials say a union that represents workers at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 460 laid-off employees are getting their jobs back.
Health and Human Services confirmed an estimated 200 of the reinstated workers are based in the CDC’s National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention.
According to officials, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight vaccine committee replacements, including a prominent critic of COVID-19 shots.
All 17 sitting members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices were terminated on Monday by Kennedy Jr.
On Tuesday, more than 100 people rallied outside of the CDC headquarters in Atlanta in protest.
Among those in attendance include current employees, fired employees, parents of employees and CDC retirees.
“Up until today, ACIP recommendations were the gold standard for what insurers should pay for, what providers should recommend, and what the public should look to,” panel member and behavioral scientist Noel Brewer previously said.