{"id":1562488,"date":"2022-07-20T08:49:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562488"},"modified":"2022-07-20T08:49:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:49:59","slug":"exclusive-vast-majority-of-cdc-workers-working-remotely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-vast-majority-of-cdc-workers-working-remotely\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Vast Majority of CDC Workers Working Remotely"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-vast-majority-of-cdc-workers-working-remotely%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1562488&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Over three-quarters of workers at the nation\u2019s largest public health agency are working remotely, even after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> metrics have plunged following fresh peaks in January, according to data obtained by The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Of the approximately\u00a012,679 full-time workers at the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> (CDC), 78 percent are either not working in-person at all, or are only doing so part of the time, the CDC\u2019s records office told The Epoch Times in response to a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA).<\/p>\n<p>The numbers, which have not previously been made public, show agency workers aren\u2019t heeding President Joe Biden, who called in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/bidens-first-state-of-the-union-address_4310527.html\">his State of the Union speech<\/a> \u201cfor Americans to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDC\u2019s headquarters are in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople working from home can feel safe to begin to return to the office. We\u2019re doing that here in the federal government. The vast majority of federal workers will once again work in person,\u201d Biden said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>A CDC spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took a FOIA request from The Epoch Times to find out that more than half of the CDC employees are working remotely in some capacity. We don\u2019t know if these are lab techs or people who are in the front office. That\u2019s part of the problem,\u201d\u00a0Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a member of the Senate\u00a0Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, told The Epoch Times via email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we do know is if this is the public health equivalent of war, then we need the federal agency on the frontline to show up in the office, be the example, maximize efficiency, and do everything possible to make sure that COVID does not impact our lives any more than it did. Let\u2019s go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over three-quarters of workers at the nation\u2019s largest public health agency are working remotely, even after COVID-19 metrics have plunged following fresh peaks in January, according to data obtained by The Epoch Times. 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