CDC leaders call shooting targeted and deliberate as rattled staff say they felt like ‘sitting ducks’

health • 8/10/2025

A gunman opened fire on CDC headquarters in Atlanta, killing a police officer. The shooter may have blamed a possible illness on vaccines.

Federal agencies Vaccines See all topics Follow In a large and hastily arranged Zoom call on Saturday, about 800 rattled staffers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tried to make sense of the trauma they endured just a day earlier... [6480 chars]