Protesters rally outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia after mass layoffs began at the major US health agencies as the Trump administration embarks on a sweeping and scientifically contested restructuring that will cut 10,000 jobs. "For any future epidemics we aren’t going to have the information, we aren’t going to be prepared and it's going to be even worse than COVID," says a retired nurse. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES