CDC director Susan Monarez ousted after less than one month in the job | Trump administration
US officials, on Wednesday, the agency initiated the other high -profile resignation wave, a month after a month after the country’s best Public Health Agency announced that the departure.
“Susan Monarez is no longer the Director of Disease Control and Prevention Centers. We thank him for his special service,” he said.
HHS officials did not explain why Monarez was no longer with the agency.
The Washington Post first reported that he was dismissed by referring to anonymous resources under Trump.
Reporting Mail and the New York Times show that Monarez fled from the US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy JR after refusing to fully support Monarez’s coronavirus vaccine policy.
Monarez’s sudden separation was followed by the resignation of several other senior CDC officials. Shortly after HHS announced On social media, Monarez resigned at least three CDC leaders, not the Director of Disease Control and Prevention Centers ”.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned as the Director of National Vaccination and Respiratory Diseases Center, said, ım I cannot serve this role anymore because of the ongoing armament of public health ”. A E -POSTA obtained by StatA health news site.
These concerns were repeated by another CDC leader Dr. Deb Hour, who wrote that “ongoing changes prevented me from going on as the leader of the agency, and added that science should never be censored or subject to political interpretations”.
Two CDC leaders and his colleagues who managed the center of zoonotic infectious diseases Daniel Jernigan left the agency after the sudden separation of Senate CDC Director Susan Monarez.
The 50 -year -old Monarez was the first person to undergo the Senate approval following the 21st director of the agency and the 2023 law. He was elected acting director in January, and then Trump suddenly appeared as a candidate in March, after his first choice with David Weldon.
On July 31-less than a month-he served as the shortest in the history of the 79-year-old agency.
