Susan Monarez is According to a position as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention American, according to an official account of the Ministry of Health and Social Services X. It has been in position for a month. Following its obvious, several other CDC chiefs resigned.
Appointed acting director of the CDC in January, Monarez was officially confirmed at the post by the Senate on July 29 and sworn in two days later. During his brief mandate, the CDC’s main campus in Atlanta was attacked by a shooter who blamed the covid-19 vaccine for having made him sick and depressed. A local police officer David Rose was killed by the suspect when he responded to the shooting.
In a statement on Wednesday evening, Mark Zaid and Father David Lowell, the lawyers of Monarez, allegedly alleged that she had been “targeted” for refusing “to stadium non -scientific rubber, reckless directives and health experts dedicated to fire”. The press release also indicates that Monarez has not resigned and does not plan to do and says that it has not received any notification that it has been dismissed.
According to the emails obtained by Wired, at least three other senior CDC officials resigned Wednesday evening: Demeter Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Debra Houry, chief doctor and deputy director of the program and science; And Daniel Jernigan, director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.
More and more resignations should become public soon, say that CDC staff knowing departures.
“I fear that the appointments do not make decisions about science, but rather focus on support for the agenda of the administration,” said an employee of the CDC, who was anonymity by concerns about remuneration. “I fear that the next directors do not support and not protect the staff.”
David Weldon, a doctor and former member of the Florida Republican Congress, was a doctor and former member of the Florida Republican Congress. But a few hours before its Senate confirmation hearing in March, the White House withdrew the appointment of Weldon. The administration then appointed Monarez.
The CDC leadership outings come in the middle of recent upheavals in the vaccine policy fomented by the HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who in May removed the COVVI-19 vaccine from the list of vaccines recommended by the CDC for healthy children and pregnant women. The following month, he dismissed the 17 members in search of the CDC advisory committee on vaccination practices, a group of independent experts that makes scientific recommendations on vaccines.
In their place, he installed eight new members, including several longtime vaccine detractors. “Clean scanning is necessary to restore public confidence in vaccine science,” Kennedy said in a statement at the time.
Earlier this month under the supervision of Kennedy, HHS canceled half a billion dollars in research funding on mRNA vaccines. This month, HHS has also announced the reinstatement of the Safers Infant Vaccines Working Group, a federal advisory committee created by the Congress in 1986 to improve the security and monitoring of vaccines to children in the United States. The panel was dissolved in 1998, when it published its final report. Public health experts fear that the panel will be a decision to undermine the science of established vaccines more.
