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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:05 PM Aug 2025

CDC left leaderless after new Director Dr. Susan Monarez is ousted and other key officials follow

Dr. Susan Monarez, who was sworn in as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on July 31, has been removed from the position, the White House said Wednesday.

Several high-level veteran agency officials resigned after word spread about her departure, leaving the CDC leaderless at a perilous time. HHS has not named an acting director to lead the CDC.

Morale, which was already low after deep staff cuts this spring, plummeted after a gunman opened fire on the CDC’s main campus in Atlanta on August 8, pocking the buildings with hundreds of bullet holes and killing DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose. Shortly afterward, a further 600 employees got official termination notices.

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Monarez’s ouster, first reported by The Washington Post, burst into public view over several tumultuous hours Wednesday. Just weeks into her tenure as director, she had clashed with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy over vaccine policy and her refusal to fire several veteran CDC leaders, according to people familiar with the situation.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cdc-director-dr-susan-monarez-210501474.html

Never fear, Bobby Brainworm's here.

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CDC left leaderless after new Director Dr. Susan Monarez is ousted and other key officials follow (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 OP
Imagine how toxic RFK Jr. is given people that Johonny Aug 2025 #1
We really live in the worst fucking timeline! Initech Aug 2025 #2

Johonny

(26,631 posts)
1. Imagine how toxic RFK Jr. is given people that
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:35 PM
Aug 2025

Wanted to work for Trump's administration have decided they don't want to work for him. RFK Jr. will lead to people dying that would not have. There is no stopping that now. He is a ideologue with a destructive agenda.

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