Susan Monarez is According to a post in the official department of Health and Human Services X Account, we are no longer director of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She was in position for just one month. In view of his clear ouster, many other CDC leaders have resigned.
In January, the name of the CDC Director, Monarez, was officially confirmed by the Senate on 29 July and was sworn in after two days. During his brief tenure, the main campus of the CDC in Atlanta was attacked by a gunman who blamed the Kovid -19 vaccine for making him sick and depressed. A local police officer, David Rose, was killed by the suspect while responding to the shooting.
In a statement on Wednesday evening, Mark Zaid and Abbe David Lowell, Monarez’s lawyers alleged that they were “targeted” to “refuse” rubber-stamp unscientific, careless instructions and dedicated health experts. “The statement further stated that Monarez has not resigned and has not planned, and claims that he has not received the notification that he has been fired.”
According to the email received by Wired, at least three other senior CDC authorities resigned on Wednesday evening: Demetre Daslis, director of the National Center for vaccination and respiratory diseases; Debra Humi, Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science; And Daniel Jarnigan, Director of National Center for Emerging and Zunotic infectious diseases.
CDC employees are expected to go public soon with knowledge of departure.
“I am worried that political appointments will not take decisions on science, but instead focus on supporting the administration’s agenda,” a CDC employee says, who was given an oblivion out of concerns. “I worry that the next director will not support and protect employees.”
President Donald Trump’s original pick David Weldon, a physician and former Republican Congressman of Florida, to lead the CDC, who had a history of making a history of making a statement questioning the safety of vaccines. But a few hours before the hearing of its Senate confirmation in March, the White House withdrew Weldon’s nomination. The administration then nominated Monarez.
HHS Secretary Robert F. CDC leadership exit by Kennedy Junior recently amidst the turmoil of the vaccine policy, which removed the Covid-19 vaccine in May from the list of recommended vaccines of CDC for healthy children and pregnant women. Next month, he fired all 17 sitting members of the CDC advisory committee on vaccination practices, a group of independent experts who make science-based recommendations on vaccines.
In his place, he installed eight new members, including several long vaccine critics. Kennedy said in a statement at that time, “A clean sweep is necessary to re -establish public belief in vaccine science.”
Earlier this month, under the leadership of Kennedy, HHS canceled half a billion dollars in funding for research on MRNA vaccines. This month, HHS announced the restoration of the task force on a secured childhood vaccine on a federal advisory panel created by the Congress in 1986 to improve vaccine safety and inspection for children in the US. The panel was dissolved in 1998, when it released its final report. Public health experts are concerned that the panel installed vaccine is a step to reduce science.
