Centers for Disease Control Director Susan Monarez has abruptly left the post just weeks after being sworn in, the Department of Health and Human Services announced on Wednesday — a claim that was immediately disputed by her lawyers.

Why it matters: The dispute left the leadership of the agency in turmoil as a wave of high-level departures gutted the leadership of the agency that's responsible for protecting the nation's public health.

The latest: After HHS announced on X that Monarez is "no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," attorneys Mark Zaid and Abbe Lowell posted on X Wednesday night that Monarez "has neither resigned nor received notification from the White House that she has been fired."

Driving the news: The CDC's chief medical officer Debra Hour

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