The White House announced the ouster of newly sworn-in CDC director Susan Monarez, while her lawyers assert only President Donald Trump can remove her. Four senior CDC officials resigned, including Demetre Daskalakis and Debra Houry, who said they quit to signal that science is being ignored and that public health is endangered. Staff morale has fallen and leadership vacancies threaten the CDC's ability to issue reliable guidance. Resignations were linked to alleged replacement of science with ideology, sidelining of scientists, and restricted briefings to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., raising concern that he may be receiving inaccurate information.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is coming undone. The White House announced last night that it had ousted the agency's newly sworn-in director, Susan Monarez, whose lawyers insist that she still has her job because only President Donald Trump himself can fire her. (Yes, it's a mess.) Four top officials resigned yesterday. Two of them-Demetre Daskalakis, who was the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases,
He told me that his decision to resign was prompted by a number of factors, including "the replacement of science with ideology" and "the sidelining of scientists so that their data cannot be seen." He also fears that important information isn't finding its way to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. According to Daskalakis, no one from his center had been allowed to brief Kennedy directly on any of the issues that it covers, including polio, measles, COVID-19,
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