Top CDC officials resign after the director is ejected

Susan Monarez is no longer a director US Centers for Control and Disease PreventionAccording to the words Post The official account of the Department of Health and Social Services X. It was in this position only a month. In the wave of its obvious nomination, several other CDC leaders resigned.

Named the acting director of the CDC in January, the Monares was officially confirmed to the position of Senate on July 29 and sworn two days later. During her short stay on the CDC main campus, Atlanta attacked a fighter who was accused of Covid 19 The vaccine for being ill and depression. The local police officer, David Rose, was killed by the suspect while responding to the shooting.

IN Statement on Wednesday evening Mark Zaid and ABB David Lowell, the lawyers of Monarez, claimed that she was “aimed at refusing” to the rubber stamps of non -scientific, reckless directives and firefighters in health care. ” The statement further states that the monarch did not resign and does not plan, and claims that she did not receive a message that she had been released.

According to the emails received by Wired, at least three other CDC officials resigned on Wednesday night: Demetre Daskalakis, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Debra Srir, Chief Medical Director and Deputy Director of Program and Science; and Daniel Gernigan, Director of the National Center of New and Zoonic Infectious Diseases.

It is expected that more resignation will be publicly available, say, CDC staff with knowledge of departures.

“I am worried that political appointed ones will not make decisions on science, but instead focus on supporting the agenda of the administration,” says one CDC employee, who has been given anonymity of concern about repayment. “I worry that the following directors will not support and protect the staff.”

The original choice of President Donald Trump, who heads the CDC, was David Weldon, a doctor and a former Republican Congressman from Florida, who had a history of the application that he questioned the safety of vaccines. But an hour before his hearing in the Senate in March, the White House withdrew Weldon’s nomination. Then the administration put forward Monarez.

Exit from the CDC leadership appears against a recent vaccine policy that promotes HHS secretaries Robert F. Kennedy, which can eliminate the KOD-19 vaccine from the list of recommended CDC vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women. Next month he is released all 17 seated members Consultative Committee on Immunization of the CDC, a group of independent experts, which gives scientific recommendations for vaccines.

In their place, he has installed eight new members, including several ancient vaccine critics. “Need a clean sweep to restore public confidence in the vaccine”, Kennedy stated in a statement at that time.

At the beginning of this month under the guidance of Kennedy, HHS canceled half a billion dollars funding for Investigation of mRNA vaccines. This month, HHS also announced the restoration of the working group on safe children’s vaccines, the Federal Advisory Board, created by Congress in 1986 to improve vaccine safety and supervision for children in the United States. The commission was dissolved in 1998, when it published the final report. Health experts are worried that a group is a step to further undermine the vaccine.