In a large and hastily arranged Zoom call on Saturday, about 800 rattled staffers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tried to make sense of the trauma they endured a day earlier, when a gunman across the street from the CDC campus opened fire on the agency’s buildings.

The CDC, which tracks outbreaks of illness in the US, played a central role during the Covid pandemic and has been heavily-criticised by vaccine sceptics. Officer Rose was a former Marine who had served in Afghanistan.

The suspected gunman in the attack that killed a police officer near the Emory University campus and the CDC's headquarters was identified Saturday morning.

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters,

The gunman identified in Friday’s shooting near the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta apparently blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal. Armed with five guns,