Michael Beach, former deputy director of the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases at CDC, attends a weekly protest outside the agency's main campus in Atlanta. Pien Huang/NPR hide caption
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff play key roles in preventing and responding to a range of infectious disease threats. Some people fear staff cuts and other changes at the agency under Trump are undercutting this capacity. Smith Collection/Gado/CDC/Getty Images hide caption
Upheaval and firings at CDC raise fears about disease outbreak response
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Afrigen Biologics staff members in the company's lab in Cape Town, South Africa. Afrigen is working on a project to figure out how to manufacture the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine â part of an effort to address global health inequities. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption