Washington — A scientist laid off by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said "the everyday American should be very concerned" by reductions in force amid the government shutdown.

The scientist, one of hundreds of CDC employees terminated by the Trump administration last week, asked that her identity be concealed for fear of retribution.

"It's going to mean more deaths, more preventable deaths," she told CBS News on Wednesday of the layoffs. "People will absolutely die from the impact of this administration."

The scientist worked at the CDC for the past decade, studying chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease.

She spoke out the same day a federal judge in Northern California issued a verbal order temporarily halting all the government layoffs that were

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