Confusion rules in one corner of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where the purpose is the pursuit of certainty.
The National Center for Health Statistics plans and disseminates research informing public health policies on everything from food to oral health to environmental exposures. It may be best known for reports that rely on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, though its future is now a question mark after the people who make it happen were among the roughly 1,300 who received layoff notices on Oct. 10. Nearly 600 of those reductions in force were reversed, but the small corps of planners in that division were not among them.
