The forecast is sunny with low humidity, a high near 81 degrees today and a low around 62 overnight. Contact options include Bluesky @abeaujon.87, Signal at the same handle, and an email link. The sender will be out Friday; Kate Corliss will handle Washingtonian Today tomorrow. Both will be off Monday for the holiday and return Tuesday. A morning email newsletter sign-up is available. Music recommendations include Deceased’s "Elly's Dementia," and the band will mark 40 years at Union Stage with No/Más, Abominog, and Desolus. Playlists of daily music picks are on Spotify and Apple Music. The Trump administration fired CDC Director Susan Monarez, several senior CDC officials resigned, and controversy arose over vaccine policy and data transparency while the FDA approved limited fall Covid vaccines.
The Trump administration fired CDC Director Susan Monarez last night after she refused Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s instructions that she resign. Monarez, who is not a medical doctor, was confirmed by the US Senate in late July. Four top CDC officials followed Monarez out the door, and "Some cited an increasingly tense environment within the administration that had become intolerable." ( NYT)
One of those who resigned, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Director Demetre Daskalakis, wrote in a parting post that he had "never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people." ( Axios) Monarez "declined to commit to support changing coronavirus vaccine policy without consulting her advisers," leading Kennedy to accuse her of not supporting Trump's agenda. ( Washington Post)
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