Kim Perales
@KimPerales@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

"I've seen🚨resignation emails from 3 senior CDC officials. One blames 'the ongoing weaponizing of #PublicHealth.'

Getting word of possibly mult resignations among senior #CDC officials tonight.

Monarez was confirmed by the Senate on July 29 as CDC chief. Now she's reportedly on her way out after less than a month on the job."
-J Dupree

Will an R Sen or Rep condemn #RFKJr's new #Covid #vaccine policy?

Likely not, but there's hope that they'll have a breaking pt.
#USPolhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/27/susan-monarez-cdc-director-ousted/
Kim Perales
@KimPerales@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

🚨Massive shakeup at the :
Dr Debra Houry, the CDC’s chief med officer; Dr Demetre Daskalakis, dir of the Nat Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases; Dr Daniel Jernigan, the dir of the Nat Center for Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; & Dr Jennifer Layden, dir of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance & Tech.

In his resignation letter, Daskalakis said he was leaving the “bc of the ongoing weaponizing of .”
cnbc.com/2025/08/27/cdc-direct