It's been a week of chaos at the CDC. Here are 5 things to know

Selena Simmons-Duffin

Diane Webber

August 29, 2025 / 11:23 am

It's been a week of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For employees at the public health agency headquartered in Atlanta, the first inkling that something was amiss came on Monday when a planned all-staff meeting was cancelled.

Here's how events unfolded from there.

1. CDC Director Susan Monarez is out.

CDC Director Susan Monarez led the agency for less than a month. She was confirmed by the Senate in late July, sworn in on July 31, led the agency through a gunman's attack on Aug. 8, and was forced out of the job this week.

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Her attorneys, Mark Zaid and Abbe Lowell, said in a statement that she was targeted because she

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