The Trump administration’s sudden dismissals have stripped training programs across the nation that bolstered state and local public health departments

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources.

Training program participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources.

With 180 more people now being told they can return, the actual number of CDC employees terminated so far would seem to stand somewhere around 550. But federal health officials haven’t confirmed any specifics.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are frantically trying to bring in hundreds of workers fired in a mass Trump administration purge back into work, reported The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Reports say dozens of laid-off workers received an email that rescinded their terminations and apologized for the disruption caused by the firings.