Health experts and Georgia Democrats in Congress are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s planned cuts for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was slated to meet in Atlanta from Feb. 26 to 28 — the first gathering since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as Health and Human Services secretary.

Roughly 700 employees are believed to be impacted by the layoffs mandated by the current administration's Department of Government Efficiency.

Atlanta business leaders and other organizations react to the news that the hometown CDC plans to slash 10% of its workforce.

It was a week ago that somewhere between 700 to 1,300 CDC employees were laid off in the name of government efficiency.

The Trump administration fired 1,300 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week. Advocates for the world health agency staged a protest outside the Atlanta-based headquarters.

Hundreds of employees at the Atlanta-based CDC have been laid off in the latest move by the department of government efficiency. The employees worked in the disease detectors department. They were notified via emails of being laid off due to poor performance.

The Atlanta-based agency’s leadership was notified of the decision Friday morning. The verbal notice came from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a meeting with CDC leaders, according to a federal official who was at the meeting.

The cluster of medical facilities in the city around Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention carry prestige. They feel under attack.

Demonstrators protest the mass firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees in front of the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Feb. 18. (Arvin Temkar/Tribune News Service)

The CDC expects roughly 11,000 to show up at its Atlanta offices daily. That will include about 5,800 at the Roybal Campus near Emory.

Atlanta officials see an opportunity for state and local governments to hire ex-CDC and other federal workers.