After a second surge of flu hospitalization earlier in February, federal and Georgia data indicate the spread is slowing down.

At the state Capitol on Friday, dozens of current and recently-fired CDC employees stood behind lawmakers to protest the efforts of DOGE, the newly former Department of Government Efficiency led by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

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

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

Last week, nearly 700 probationary employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were forced out.

The nation’s top public health agency is losing most of the scientists in a prestigious, but lesser-known, laboratory program that has become a mainstay of outbreak responses.

Gov. Brian Kemp has reiterated his stance on limiting government growth, telling Politico during a weekend overseas trip that the government could benefit from “rightsizing."

The CDC is among the federal agencies where cuts have been planned by the Trump administration. Arrests are made in connection with Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce burglaries Japan now has operational light aircraft carrier Appeals court leaves block on Trump’s birthright citizenship order in place,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — feared the impact of job cuts.