NEW YORK – The director of the country’s main public health agency is absent after less than a month in employment, US officials announced on Wednesday.
“Susan Monarez is no longer director of centers for disease control and prevention. We thank her for her service devoted to the American people, “wrote the American Department of Health and Social Services on social networks.
HHS officials did not explain why Monarez is no longer with the agency.
Before the ministry’s announcement, she told the Associated Press: “I cannot comment.”
Monarerez, 50, was the 21st agency director and the first to go through the confirmation of the Senate following a law of 2023. She was appointed interim director in January, then made a name as a candidate in March after Trump suddenly withdrew his first choice, David Weldon.
She was sworn in on July 31 – less than a month ago, making her the shortest CDC in the history of the 79 -year -old agency.
His short time at the CDC was tumultuous. On August 8, at the end of his first full week at work, a man of Georgia opened fire in a pharmacy in front of the main entrance to the CDC. The 30-year-old man blamed the COVVI-19 vaccine for having made it depressed and suicidal. He killed a police officer and pulled more than 180 shots in CDC buildings before committing suicide.
No one at the CDC was injured, but he dropped staff who already had a low morale compared to other recent changes.
The Federal Agency based in Atlanta was initially founded to prevent the spread of malaria in the United States.
This year, he was struck by cups of generalized personnel, resignations of key officials and an animated controversy on the long -standing policies of the CDC vaccine by the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
During her Senate confirmation process, Monarez told senators that she values vaccines, public health interventions and rigorous scientific evidence. But she largely dodged questions about the question of whether these positions have disagreed with Kennedy, a long -standing skeptic of the vaccine that has criticized and sought to dismantle some of the agency’s previous protocols and decisions.
The Washington Post reported for the first time that it had been ousted, citing anonymous sources in the Trump administration.
