Top Health Officials Placed on Leave as HHS Fires 10,000 Workers

Top officials inside the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have been placed on leave, including Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who succeeded Dr. Anthony Fauci as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as HHS enacts a major reorganization and workforce reduction. Automated emails from Marrazzo and several other officials within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on April 3 confirmed they’re on leave. That includes Dr. Diana Bianchi, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and Vence L. Bonham Jr., acting deputy director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, who had been the agency’s top official following the departure of its director....