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John Hickenlooper: “They laid off a bunch of people, scientists in Fort Collins…”

Featuring: John Hickenlooper, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Colorado

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Published | Video Starts at 04:29

And get just what we've actually experienced, what we saw from each of us, no nonsense. And I think that's where we are in Colorado and around the country. It's no nonsense. They laid off a bunch of people, scientists in Fort Collins, the CDC did, that were working on vector driven diseases. So think Lyme disease and making real progress. And all of a sudden it's shut down, it's stopped, they're gone. Well, they get hired back, there's talk. I mean, who knows? (04:29–04:36)

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Asserts that the CDC laid off scientists in Fort Collins working on vector-driven diseases.

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