On Sunday, CNN reported that the CDC held a video conference with approximately 800 staff members to discuss the traumatic event and allow them to ask questions. Staff said they felt like "sitting ducks" as bullets whizzed just over their cubicle walls and they dove for the floor.

CDC staffers are voicing frustration over RFK Jr.’s past vaccine comments, following Friday’s shooting at the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta that left one officer dead.

The bill proposes that the Department of Public Health be able to set independent standards should the federal government fail “to maintain a robust schedule of vaccine recommendations.”