The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has five key leaders who are publicly accusing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of weaponizing public health and putting lives in danger.
Within the span of one day, four key leaders at CDC announced their resignations and HHS announced CDC Director Susan Monarez would no longer be working at the agency, though she is pushing back on her ouster.
These developments follow a tumultuous few weeks for CDC, during which a shooting claimed the life of one individual at the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta and roughly 600 staffers were laid off soon after.
At the center of it all is a bubbling tension over what staffers say is an effort by current HHS leadership to throttle vaccine acces