Author: Dan Levine and Deena Beasley
The US CDC of the American CDC tightened security after the attack on Friday at its headquarters in Atlanta, which was left by a police officer and shooter of the dead, including that employees were working from home on Monday and removed the stickers of the vehicle where they work.
The Union representing workers in US Centers for Control and Prevention of Diseases said that the violence “merges on the months of poor neglect and neglect and shames that CDC employees have lasted,” the shooter quoted that the shooter accused the COVID-19.
Since he was appointed Minister of Health and Human Services at the beginning of this year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He focused on vaccines and withdrew federal recommendations for Covid Shots for pregnant women and healthy children in May.
Kennedy will visit the CDC campus in Atlanta on Monday, according to a source familiar with plans.
“No one should face violence at work to protect the health of others,” Kennedy Jr. Saturday in post X.
The source informed about this matter to Reuters that during the attack the CDC of 189 rounds of shooting hit, 85 windows were broken and more than 100 doors were destroyed.
The Atlanta Police Department advanced to the Georgian investigation office that had no immediate comment.
Local and federal enforcement of the right “perform intensive monitoring of all potential threats for CDC and his employees”, the reigning operating director of Christ Capozzola said in -mail to employees at the weekend he saw Reuters.
She said there was work to clean and repair extensive damage to the CDC campus with a shooter who, according to the investigation, acted alone.
The “All-Staff” meeting on Tuesday will only become a virtual event, and CDC director Susan Monarez said in a separate e-mail to employees seen by Reuters. She said that teams work hard to determine “our posture” advancing forward.
The agency’s security division asked employees to remove the CDC labels from their vehicles. (Reportage Deena Beasley and Dan Levine in San Francisco; Additonal Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; editing Bernadette Baum
(Tagstotranslate) CDC Security (T) Atlanta Headquarters Attack (T) Covid-19 Vaccine (T) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (T) violence against healthcare workers
