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.

Her attorneys, Mark Zaid and Abbe Lowell, said in a statement that she was targeted because she “refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts.”

Sources who were not authorized to speak publ

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