Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staffers react to Friday shooting
A bullet hole is visible in the door of a CVS pharmacy on Saturday, Aug. 9, near the shooting at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Photo by Jeff Amy / The Associated Press
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This past Friday, a gunman stood across the street from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s main campus in Atlanta and fired round after round into the buildings where the nation's top public health scientists work. Employees hid under desks. Children sheltered at an on-campus day care. A police officer who responded to the scene was killed.
National Public Radio’s health correspondent Pien Huang tells ‘All Things Considered’ host Ari Shapiro what happened and why one in three CDC staffers report having been harassed or threatened due to their work since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic.
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Last week’s incident at the CDC prompted The Integrity Project to write on the troubling anti-science movement in an essay titled, When Science Becomes a Target: The Growing Threat to Scientists in the Age of Misinformation.
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