CDC asks all employees to return to the office after the HQ shooting

A sign of the CDC is outside its facility in the centers for the control and prevention of diseases and prevention Roybal in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 30, 2025.

Megan Varner | Reuters

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention informed the employees that they would return to the offices by September 15, about five weeks after the fatal attack of a shooter on the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta, CNBC.

“Your security remains our top priority. We take the necessary steps to restore our workplace and will return to regular operations on site on Monday, September 15,” said Lynda Chapman, the new Chief Operating Officer of the agency, in an email sent on Thursday, which was viewed by CNBC.

Chapman said that all employees will return to their offices according to e -mail. For employees whose work areas are still affected by the shootings -including physical damage due to the attack of the shooter -the CDC will provide alternative rooms on its campus, wrote Chapman in the e -mail.

She said that the agency had made “considerable progress” on repairs on the CDC Roybal Campus in Atlanta. The CDC leadership and a team “Response and Recovery Management” are working on clearing up the concerns of the employees and ensuring a safe environment if the agency is again in office work, added Chapman.

According to the shootouts on August 8, CDC employees were instructed from a distance to return to the office in the following weeks, two people familiar with the matter who applied for anonymity out of fear of retaliation for the conversation with the media.

The Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

The internal announcement comes at a turbulent time for the CDC and its workforce. The shootout did not lead to injuries to CDC employees, but a mussel shocked a workforce that has already been offset by comprehensive changes in the context of HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including the employees of employees and heated controversy over his efforts to change the guidelines for CDC immuneization and to dismiss the vaccine advice of the agency.

The Return-to-Office guideline also comes when the CDC deals with a leadership of the leadership: The White House said at the beginning of this week that President Donald Trump had released the director of the agency, Susan Monarez. Four other top officials resigned, some of them cited the politicization of the agency and a threat to public health.

The authorities identified the shooters behind the shootings in the CDC headquarters as Patrick Joseph White and said they had five weapons and more than 500 mussel sleeves from the scene. During the attack, the agency’s employees had to loathe in offices.

White fatally shot an answering police officer, the 33-year-old David Rose, fatally and killed himself. White had accused the Covid 19 vaccine to make him depressed and suicide.

Before her shooting, Monarez seemed to directly accuse the role of the misinformation among the shootings, as an e -mail emerged that was sent to the employees on August 12, which was viewed by CNBC.

In the note, Monarez said: “The dangers of misinformation and publication have now led to fatal consequences. I will work to restore confidence in public health that has lost this through science, evidence and clarity of the purpose. I will need your help.”