Roughly 700 employees are believed to be impacted by the layoffs mandated by the current administration's Department of Government Efficiency.

Atlanta business leaders and other organizations react to the news that the hometown CDC plans to slash 10% of its workforce.

Health experts and Georgia Democrats in Congress are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s planned cuts for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It was a week ago that somewhere between 700 to 1,300 CDC employees were laid off in the name of government efficiency.

The Trump administration fired 1,300 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week. Advocates for the world health agency staged a protest outside the Atlanta-based headquarters.

The cluster of medical facilities in the city around Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention carry prestige. They feel under attack.

The Atlanta-based agency’s leadership was notified of the decision Friday morning. The verbal notice came from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a meeting with CDC leaders, according to a federal official who was at the meeting.

Hundreds of employees at the Atlanta-based CDC have been laid off in the latest move by the department of government efficiency. The employees worked in the disease detectors department. They were notified via emails of being laid off due to poor performance.

The CDC expects roughly 11,000 to show up at its Atlanta offices daily. That will include about 5,800 at the Roybal Campus near Emory.

Public health employees and contractors who lost their jobs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta on Friday to put a face on the mass terminations and demand that state officials speak up for them with the Trump administration.

State Democrats gathered at the state Capitol on Friday to address the recent layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Trump administration ordered the removal of all probationary employees from the Atlanta-based agency.