Coding error leads to CDC employees mistakenly laid off: Official
In the process of laying off large numbers of health employees, the Trump administration mistakenly issued reduction-in-force notices to members of key CDC offices due to a “coding error,” a federal health official told ABC News on Saturday.
Workers involved in responding to Ebola outbreaks in Africa and measles outbreaks in the U.S. are among those who were mistakenly issued reduction-in-force notices, the official said.

An overwhelming amount of staff in the office in charge of putting out the weekly CDC science journal, known as the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), were also told that they were let go, two sources told ABC News.
But those employees were also mistakenly cut, the federal health official said.
The MMWR report is dubbed “the voice of CDC” and is widely respected and used by clinicians across the country. It has been the CDC’s standard scientific journal for decades.
The federal health official told ABC News that the employees mistakenly laid off will receive a formal notice rescinding their elimination “eventually,” likely within a matter of days.
The coding errors affected just four offices within CDC, according to the health official, meaning hundreds of HHS employees will still lose their jobs.
-ABC News' Youri Benadjaoud and Will McDuffie






