The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is rehiring about 460 employees who had previously been laid off, according to an email notice reviewed by The Hill. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed on Thursday that reinstatement notices were sent but provided few other details.

HHS is reinstating more than 450 staff across multiple divisions within CDC, including an office focused on HIV prevention. This restores some staff let go under the DOGE initiative.

Laid off workers were told their notices of an upcoming reduction in force were "revoked." Officials didn't explain why HHS appeared to be restoring hundreds of jobs it previously called duplicative.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reinstating hundreds of employees who were fired in earlier this year, according to media reports.

The proposed budget for the Department of Health and Human Services slashes CDC and NIH funding in favor of the new Administration for a Healthy America.

In April, HHS announced it was placing some 10,000 employees on administrative leave, including 2,400 in CDC alone, with plans to lay them off this month. That announcement would have dissolved the entire environmental health division and its branches on climate, water and food, lead, air pollution, data tracking, and emerging hazards.

A demonstration recently took place at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, with protesters calling on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reinstating some 450 employees laid off under the Trump administration's massive reduction of the federal workforce, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday.