Dr. Tom Frieden, a former CDC director under President Barack Obama and the current president and CEO of the health advocacy organization Resolve to Save Lives, says the staffing cuts at federal health agencies amount to a threat to the public’s safety.

By Andrea Shalal, Leah Douglas, Ahmed Aboulenein and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Almost half of the probationary workers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others at the National Institutes of Health are being forced out as President Donald Trump overhauls government agencies,

Department of Health and Human Services officials expected most of the agency’s roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired.