Gunman pulled more than 180 shots at the CDC headquarters, but no staff injured

The man who attacked the siege of the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta fired more than 180 shots on Friday and broke around 150 windows, piercing the “resistant” speeds and splashes with glass shards in many parts, according to information broadcast internally at the agency.

It can take weeks or even months to repair and clean the damage, said CDC staff.

A man of Georgia who had blamed the COVVI-19 vaccine for having depressed him and suicidal opened fire on Friday evening, killing a police officer. No one at the CDC was injured.

The shooter was arrested by the CDC security guards before going to a nearby pharmacy, said a law enforcement manager. The manager was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke under the cover of anonymity. The 30 -year -old man, Patrick Joseph White, died later, but the authorities did not say if he had been killed by the police or committed suicide.

Several buildings have struck

CDC director Susan Monarez said online that at least four of the agency buildings had been affected in the attack.

The magnitude of damage has become clearer at a CDC leadership meeting on weekends. Two CDC employees who were informed of what was discussed at the meeting, described the details of anonymity condition because they were not allowed to reveal the information. The details also appeared in an agency note seen by a journalist from Associated Press.

Building 21, which houses the Monarez office, was struck by the greatest number of bullets. CDC officials did not say if his office had been affected.

CDC employees were invited to work at home this week.

“All potential threats” are monitored

The United States Ministry of Health and Social Services (HHS) says it continues to support CDC staff and that additional security and security measures are set up before their return to the office.

The local and federal police forces “carry out intensive surveillance of all the potential threats to the CDC and its staff,” said the agency’s acting chief, Christa Capozzola, in an email to the staff during the weekend.

She said the work was underway to clean and repair the significant damage to the CDC campus by the shooter who, according to the investigation, has so far acted alone.

An “All-Staff” meeting on Tuesday will become a virtual event only, said Monarez in a separate email. The agency’s security division asked employees in an e-mail to delete the CDC identification decals of their vehicles.

A CDC retired official Stephan Monroe said he was worried about the long -term impact that the attack on the will of young scientists to go to work for the government.

“I fear that it is a generational success,” said Monroe, addressing a journalist near the corner where a poster had been installed in honor of David Rose, the officer who was killed.

The Secretary in the United States of Health and Social Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was a leader in a national anti-vaccine movement before US President Donald Trump selects him to supervise federal health agencies, and has made false and deceptive declarations on the security and efficiency of COVVI-19 and other vaccines.

Years of false rhetoric on vaccines and public health had to “wreak havoc on the mental health of people” and “leads to violence,” said Tim Young, a CDC employee who retired in April.

Dr. Jerome Adams, the US general surgeon in Trump’s first administration, said health leaders on Sunday should appreciate the weight of their words.

“We must understand that people listen to,” said Adams Face the nation On CBS. “When you make complaints that have been proven repeatedly on the safety and efficiency of vaccines, this can cause unexpected consequences.”

The union representing CDC workers said that violence “aggravates months of ill -treatment, negligence and defamation that CDC staff have endured”, adding that “the deliberate targeting of the CDC through this violent act is deeply disturbing, completely unacceptable and an attack on each official”.