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About a quarter of the CDC’s workforce either have left the agency or were fired during President Donald Trump’s second term. “The brain drain is fierce,” the staffer said, according to the transcript. “How are we going to hold up CDC’s image of being the gold standard when the back door and front door is wide open and people are leaving?” Schwartz said that despite the turmoil, she thought the agency was doing “a remarkable job.” “Can we do more? What the new task force is “trying to do in the interim, because we don’t know how long it’s going to take for this appeals decision to be made, is sort of looking at all of the possibilities regarding immunizations and patient-parent choice,” Schwartz said during the meeting. “When ACIP is reconstituted, we can have that body of information that we can share with ACIP, and ACIP can say ‘this is ridiculous’ or they can say ‘this is actually really good and we’ll use pieces of it.’” Schwartz also sought to reassure staffers following the August 2025 shooting at the agency’s Atlanta campus, which killed a police officer.
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