Some employees blamed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for spreading vaccine misinformation, which, they say, may have villainized the CDC in the eyes of some. Some media outlets have reported that the suspected shooter, 30-year-old Patrick White, believed that the Covid-19 vaccine made him sick. White died at the scene, authorities said.

The gunman in Friday's deadly shooting outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters had become fixated and outspoken against the COVID-19 vaccine, according to what his family told police.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers whose jobs have been reinstated after dizzying Trump administration disruptions say they remain stuck in a budgetary, political, and professional limbo.