Top CDC Officials Resign After Director’s Ouster

Several top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stepped down following the ouster of Susan Monarez as the public health agency’s director. Among those leaving the agency was Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. “I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health,” Daskalakis said in a letter posted on X on Aug. 27, shortly after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Monarez was no longer director of the CDC....