美国政府工人联合会的一份新报告记录了在特朗普2.0政府第一年，疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）出现惊人的员工流失水平。该工会表示，从2025年3月到2026年4月，这个国家首屈一指的公共卫生机构失去了三分之一的员工。
A new report by the American Federation of Government Workers has documented a staggering level of staff attrition at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the first year of the Trump 2.0 administration. The nation’s premier public health agency lost a third of its workforce from March 2025 through April 2026, the union says.
这些职位流失包括两个CDC部门——健康公平办公室和平等就业机会办公室——100%的员工，这两个部门在2025年被完全撤销。工会表示，CDC约98%的人力资源人员也已离职。2025年春季，埃隆·马斯克的政府效率部大幅裁减了该联邦机构，随后几个月，许多在该次“大清洗”中保住工作的人也自愿辞职或退休。一年后，工会报告称，目前由卫生与公众服务部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪和新确认的CDC主任埃里卡·施瓦茨领导的这家公共卫生机构，员工减少了3000人。
Those job losses include 100 percent of the staff at two CDC units, the Office of Health Equity and the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, that were entirely eliminated in 2025. Some 98 percent of the CDC’s human resources personnel have also left their jobs, the union says. In spring of 2025, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency gutted the federal agency, and in the following months, many of those whose jobs were spared in that bloodbath voluntarily quit or retired. A year later, the union reports, 3,000 fewer people work at the public health agency now overseen by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and newly confirmed CDC Director Erica Schwartz.
曾于2025年夏季辞职前领导国家免疫与呼吸系统疾病中心的德梅特雷·达斯卡拉基斯博士本周告诉媒体，剩下的是一个“僵尸化”的机构。与此同时，CDC对麻疹、食源性环孢子虫病和狂犬病等高关注度疫情的应对几乎毫无作为。本周，CDC——负责指导医生和公众使用疫苗——对FDA在8月批准的新流感疫苗未提出任何建议。“2024年此时，CDC已发布了针对呼吸道疾病疫苗的详细建议，”媒体报道称，其中包括时任CDC主任的背书及其疫苗顾问会议的记录。今年，该疫苗顾问小组尚未召开过一次会议。
What’s left is a “zombified” agency, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who led the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases before he resigned in the summer of 2025, told the this week. Meanwhile, the CDC has done little to respond to high-profile outbreaks of measles, food-borne cyclosporiasis, and rabies. This week, the CDC—which is responsible for instructing doctors and the general public on vaccine use—made no recommendation on the new flu vaccine approved by the FDA in August. “By this time of year in 2024, the CDC had published detailed recommendations for vaccines against respiratory diseases,” the reported, including endorsements from the CDC director at the time and notes from a meeting of its vaccine advisers. This year, that group of vaccine advisers has not held a single meeting.
“我们正在目睹的是我们国家赖以生存的公共卫生基础设施正在被拆解，”美国政府雇员联合会（AFGE）第2883分会会长约兰达·雅各布斯在一份新闻稿中说。美国“理应拥有一个完全准备好在内部和外部保护公众健康的机构。”
“What we are witnessing is the dismantling of public health infrastructure our country relies on,” Yolanda Jacobs, president of AFGE Local 2883, said in a press release. The US “deserves an agency that is fully prepared to protect the public’s health within and outside its own doors.”
疾控中心的员工也值得更好的待遇，她表示，并指出他们“毕生致力于为美国人民服务”。“保护我国的公共卫生工作者也就是在保护我国的公共卫生，”她说。
The CDC’s employees also deserve better, she said, noting they “have dedicated their lives to serving the American people.” “Protecting our nation’s public health workers also protects our nation’s public health,” she said.