"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in critical condition. This year, the premier public health agency had its funding brutally cut and staff gutted, its mission sabotaged, and its headquarters riddled with literal bullets. The over 500 rounds fired were meant for its scientists and public health experts, who endured only to be sidelined, ignored, and overruled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist hellbent on warping the agency to fit his anti-science agenda."
"Then, on August 27, Kennedy fired CDC Director Susan Monarez just weeks after she was confirmed by the Senate. She had refused to blindly approve vaccine recommendations from a panel of vaccine skeptics and contrarians that he had hand-selected. The agency descended into chaos, and Monarez wasn't the only one to leave the agency that day. Three top leaders had reached their breaking point and coordinated their resignations upon the dramatic ouster:"
The CDC experienced deep funding cuts, staff reductions, and internal sabotage while its headquarters sustained an attack of over 500 rounds. Scientists and public health experts were sidelined, ignored, and overruled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., described as an anti-vaccine activist seeking to reshape the agency. On August 27, Kennedy fired CDC Director Susan Monarez weeks after Senate confirmation after she refused to blindly approve vaccine recommendations from a hand-selected panel of skeptics and contrarians. The firing prompted coordinated resignations by three top leaders and further destabilized the agency. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis led the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and managed major infectious disease responses.
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