The Department of Health and Human Services announced at the end of August that Dr. Susan Monarez “is no longer director” of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In office for only a month, Monarez had clashed with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy.

Four senior CDC staff — the chief medical officer and the directors of the National Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and the Office of Public Health Data — resigned to “raise a red flag” about Kennedy’s unwillingness to base policy decisions on sound scientific evidence.

Their resignations followed five departures of senior staff in March; layoffs of 2,400 employees, one-fifth of the total workforce; the removal of all 17 members of the CDC

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