Given below is an article. Analyze and output in the following JSON format (no backquotes, JSON only): { "analysis": { "bias": { "score": "1-10, where 1-10 measures UNFAIR or UNHELPFUL bias. As the AI analyst, you must judge: 1. Fairness of Bias: - Is the tone/alarm proportional to events? - Is criticism warranted by facts? - Are similar actions judged equally? 2. Utility of Bias: - Does the bias help readers understand real implications? - Does it highlight genuine concerns that neutral language might minimize? - Does it provide valuable context through its perspective? Example: An article about climate change might use emotional language and scary scenarios. While this is technically 'bias', it might be USEFUL bias if it helps readers grasp real dangers that cold, neutral language would understate. A high bias score should only be given when bias is both unfair AND unhelpful.", "description": "Explain both unfair and useful bias found. For each biased element: 1. Is it fair/warranted? 2. Does it serve a valuable purpose for readers? 3. Should it be removed or retained?" }, "missing_context_misinformation": { "score": "1-10", "points": [ "", # DIRECTLY provide essential context the reader needs without ANY phrases like "the article lacks/doesn't/fails to mention/omits" etc. Simply state the relevant facts. Each point up to 5 sentences as needed. Up to 10 points. NEVER refer to the article itself or what it's missing - just supply the information directly. The missing context should try to compensate for the bias in the article, and not just add related information. ] }, "disinformation_lies": { "score": "1-10", "points": [ "" # Provide corrections for verifiably false statement. These lines should be brief. Upto 10 points. ] } }, "summary": [], # A list of 2 to 5 paragraphs. Provide a version that: * Retains key facts and proportional concerns, * Removes unfair bias while keeping warranted criticism, * Adds critical missing context, * Corrects any inaccuracies. Remove author attribution. Maintain article's POV - no meta-references. You can decide the most appropriate length based on the article.summary can be longer than the article if needed. "title": "Provide an Appropriate Title Based on the Article's Content.", "changes_made": [ "List significant changes made in the summary", "Include both removals and additions", "Note bias adjustments" ], "key_words": [ "3-10 relevant terms to help identify related articles", "Focus on major themes and topics" ] } CNN  —  Anyone in the US who’s depended on a respirator to provide protection against dust, smoke, mold or airborne viruses has likely relied on a small but mighty agency within the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assure that they’re shielded from things that could damage their health. The 1,300-person National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, was established in 1970 to ensure “every man and woman in the Nation safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve our human resources.” HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. visits an elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, to discuss USDA nutrition programs. Pool Related article Kennedy says he plans to reinstate some personnel and programs severed in massive HHS layoffs On Tuesday, an estimated two-thirds of its staff was cut, or about 870 workers, as part of sweeping reductions across federal health agencies that wiped out entire divisions focused on the health and safety of miners, firefighters, health-care workers and others in one day. “It’s a small thing, but it’s massive in terms of its impact and its importance,” said John McDonough, professor of the practice of public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “And they’ve just wiped it off the face of the Earth.” Among the most immediate consequences: Ongoing investigations to ensure the safety of lifesaving breathing equipment known as escape devices used in underground mines, in building fires and on naval ships have abruptly stopped, said Rich Metzler, former director of the institute’s National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh. “Nothing is happening with any investigations related to those products to make sure that they continue to be safe for their intended use, that they continue to perform,” said Metzler, who left the agency in 2005 but still consults for the lab. “What has happened by dismantling these programs has a huge impact on worker safety.” A child heads into Trowbridge Street School of Great Lakes Studies in Milwaukee on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. The Milwaukee Health Department has ordered the school to temporarily close starting Monday after finding “unsafe lead dust levels” within the building. Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal/USA Today Network Related article A city responding to a lead crisis in schools reached out to the CDC for help. The agency’s lead experts were just fired NIOSH-approved respirators are required by the Environmental Protection Agency to protect against pesticide exposure, Metzler said; the Mine Safety and Health Administration requires them for use in underground mines to protect against coal dust; the Department of Energy requires them for protection against toxic chemicals; and construction workers rely on them to protect against silica dust created in construction projects. Consumers rely on NIOSH, as well. Many became familiar with its logo during the Covid-19 pandemic, when they were taught to look for it to ensure N95 face masks were the real deal. Counterfeits are an issue, Metzler said, even now. Just before workers at the Pittsburgh lab were told to stop work last week, he said they’d been testing cartridges sold online that attach to the front of respirators to protect against gases or particulates. “They found out that none of them met the standard,” Metzler said, while “all of the cartridges that they purchased that were on approved respirators passed.” It’s not just respiratory protection that NIOSH researches, but protection for workers of all kinds. And cuts across the institute were deep and broad, current and former employees told CNN – hobbling the entire Pittsburgh lab as well as centers focused on mining, firefighter, motor vehicle and other safety and research in Morgantown, West Virginia; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Spokane, Washington. cnn video Related video Governor warns of loss of life amidst RFK Jr.’s major cuts at HHS “It’s being destroyed. It’s pretty straightforward,” said Dr. David Michaels, professor at the George Washington University Milken School of Public Health and the assistant secretary of labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, from 2009 to 2017. The only two programs left alone, Michaels said, appear to be two that have “mandatory funding which compensates individuals who are sickened in some ways as a result of US government action – that’s the World Trade Center program and the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program.” The World Trade Center program’s director, though, was fired, Michaels noted, “so it’s hard to say that that’s untouched.” ‘Cut into the bone’ The moves drew immediate reaction from industry, lawmakers and unions representing workers that rely on NIOSH protections. US Sen. Shelley Capito, R-West Virginia, said in a Thursday media briefing that she was having a call with US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ask him to reverse course. “I’m very concerned about … how they keep our miners [safe] and look at fire equipment to make sure our firemen are safe when they’re working in dangerous situations, as our coal miners are,” Capito said. “I’m hoping to affect a brighter outlook from him that ‘you have cut into the bone here and [affected] an essential service for workplace safety.’ ” The United Mine Workers of America, a union representing coal miners, said the hundreds of NIOSH workers who were dismissed “literally save the lives of coal miners every day.” WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 09: The White House is framed in the trees under a cloudy sky on March 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images) J. David Ake/Getty Images Related article 23 states, DC sue Trump administration over billions in lost public health funding “The announced significant downsizing of offices in Morgantown, West Virginia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are particularly devastating to the coal industry, which relies on the research done there to improve its safety practices,” the union said in a statement. The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association, which represents 500 companies that rely on miners to produce building materials, also called on Kennedy to reconsider. The National Waste & Recycling Association called the NIOSH cuts “a step in the wrong direction.” Edward A. Kelly, general president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, posted on social media Wednesday that he spoke with the White House “and urged the administration to fully restore these vital programs,” specifically citing the Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program and the World Trade Center Health Program. Kelly said “the call was productive, and they assured me that efforts are underway to reverse these cuts.” NIOSH workers and supporters rallied Tuesday, April 1, outside its Cincinnati office after hundreds of workers received Reduction in Force Notifications Courtesy Dr. Micah Niemeier-Walsh A spokesperson for HHS pointed CNN to the department’s initial announcement of the reorganization that said NIOSH was among agencies that would be folded into a “new, unified entity” called the Administration for a Healthy America, or AHA. There was no response to an inquiry about whether the firings would be reversed. Wildland firefighters are regularly exposed to carcinogens. Two-thirds of firefighters die from job-related cancer, according to the International Association of Firefighters. Matt Rahn/The Wildfire Conservancy Related article LA firefighters put out massive blazes. Now they worry that cancer might be smoldering inside them The move was part of a massive overhaul of health agencies that included cuts of 10,000 workers across the CDC, the US Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. HHS called it a “dramatic restructuring in accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order, ‘Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative.’” Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman most closely associated with the DOGE initiatives, has butted heads with organizations designed to protect workers, including the National Labor Relations Board. To Michaels, that appeared to be a potential explanation for why NIOSH, with about a tenth of the CDC’s total employees, sustained more than a third of its 2,500 firings. A DOGE representative didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. ‘More than a job’ For Dr. Micah Niemeier-Walsh, the cuts at NIOSH are very personal. “I’m a third-generation NIOSH researcher,” said Niemeier-Walsh, who also serves as vice president of AFGE Local 3840, a union representing employees at NIOSH and the CDC in Cincinnati. “My grandfather, who raised me, was a toxicologist at NIOSH for 36 years, and it was normal family dinnertime conversation to talk about how you can use science to help protect working people.” Dr. Micah Niemeier-Walsh with their grandfather, Dr. Richard Niemeier, and uncle, Dr. Todd Niemeier, at an event for the PhD program they graduated from, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Occupational Health. Courtesy Dr. Micah Niemeier-Walsh Niemeier-Walsh is part of the firefighter health team at NIOSH, which houses the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer, a congressionally mandated program signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2018 to better understand firefighters’ exposures to health risks and to find more effective means of protection. Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every Tuesday from the CNN Health team. “This is a really important program,” Niemeier-Walsh said. “We have over 20,000 firefighters that have already registered, and we found out by the end of the day on Tuesday that the site was down.” The reason given, they said, was “because they laid off all the IT staff, so there’s no one to manage the system.” Niemeier-Walsh said the most common topic of conversation in the hallways at their NIOSH facility after workers received Reduction in Force notices early Tuesday was, “What’s going to happen to my research? … Who’s going to carry on this necessary work if I can’t do it?” “This is more than just a job,” Niemeier-Walsh said. “It’s our values.” CNN’s Jen Christensen contributed to this report.