January 13, 2026

CDC Shooting

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New details have been released on the attack at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday, including that the shooter fired 180 shots during the incident.

The shooter, Patrick Joseph White, 30, claimed the COVID-19 vaccine had caused him to become depressed and suicidal. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced on Tuesday.

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Error-prone science reporter Apoorva Mandavilli, infamous for her alarmist and faulty COVID-era reporting, made the front page of Monday’s New York Times with a story on a gunman’s assault on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta that killed a policeman, “C.D.C. Shooting Followed Years of Demonization — Staff Feels Betrayed as Fears Come True.

The story served both as news and, for Mandavilli, a way to again smear those who opposed the bureaucratic authoritarianism (mandatory masking and vaccines, shuttered small businesses, theatres, and schools) of the COVID era. She quickly took the conservative “disinformation” angle.

The day after a lone gunman opened fire on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, killing a police officer and shattering windows across the agency’s campus, employees were reeling from shock, fear and rage.