(CNN) — The US government’s shutdown is shaking the nation at a time when public health staffing has already been reduced, the threat of disease outbreaks looms, and both the respiratory virus season ...

Healthbeat reports on challenges local health departments face amid funding cuts and rising public distrust in health institutions.

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 ...