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Bird flu hospitalizes two people and is now endemic in cows
As the Trump administration struggles to find its footing on the outbreak, state collaboration will be key Two people, a woman from Wyoming and a man in Ohio, have been hospitalized with H5N1, the CDC said in a routine flu update on Friday. The woman is still in hospital, while the man has been released to…
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USAID begins laying off U.S. employees
The Trump administration put nearly all of USAID’s 4,700 full-time employees on paid administrative leave at midnight last night. By 10 pm yesterday, employees began receiving form letters saying their last day will be April 24. “To start sending these [letters] out at 10 p.m. on a Sunday night was horrendous,” a source told me.…
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Conflicting advice on “last week” email
On Saturday afternoon, federal employees received an email asking what they did last week. Then the confusion set in. Some employees refused to open the email, which was from an unusual address through the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), for fear that it was a phishing attempt. Some inboxes sent the email directly to spam.…
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What federal employees did last week
All federal employees received a short email on Saturday afternoon with unusual instructions. The subject line was “What did you do last week?” Here’s the entirety of the message, which was marked high priority: Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do…
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Thousands protest the destruction of U.S. aid agency—and experts fear other agencies are next
Thousands of people gathered at the US Capitol on Wednesday after the shocking announcement that the US Agency for International Development was putting nearly all of its employees on leave and recalling thousands of officers from their postings abroad. I was there to report for the Guardian, and today I wanted to share photos from the rally.…
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