An estimated 5,200 of HHS employees have been fired during the course of this week. Since the firings are ongoing, no final tally of their extent exists. At this writing, approximately 1,200 of the fired HHS employees were working at NIH, about 700 at FDA, and 750 at CDC.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will move forward with its definition of “medically frail” that cancer patients and survivors on Medicaid will need to meet in order to earn an exemption from new work requirements.
