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A laid-off worker at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to pass on returning to her dream job after receiving a "sketchy" email inviting her to come back. Cancer outreach worker ...

An unknown number of fired CDC workers got their jobs back this week. Among them was Bri McNulty, who had shared her story ...

CDC Public Health Associate Bri McNulty, who talked to NPR about being summarily fired last week, got an email that she had her job back. In the meantime, McNulty got a job offer at Penn State.

Around 750 employees for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, have been laid off in recent weeks, ...

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Before her termination, McNulty served as the outreach coordinator at the Iowa Cancer Consortium in Coralville. McNulty worked in that role since late 2023 as part of the CDC's Public Health ...