Monarez 's ouster, less than one month after the Senate confirmed her to the role, was followed by resignations from three other top CDC officials in protest of Kennedy’s leadership.
The White House said it fired Susan Monarez, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after she refused to step down from her post amid a policy disagreement with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The termination, confirmed late on Aug. 27 by the White House, came after her attorneys denied she had resigned or received notification of her termination, even after HHS announced earlier in the day that Monarez was no longer the CDC director.
Monarez’s ouster, less than one month after the Senate confirmed her to the role, was followed by resignations from three other top CDC officials in protest of Kennedy’s leadership, including his direction on vaccines.
There are 6 vaccine production facilities across canadian universities coming online this year, across the country. We are bringing back the expertise killed off by the Mulroney Conservatives.
Makes me really glad that America’s fall to fascism came in the form of a double-tap. Trump’s first term showed us that things were deeply fucked, but since there were a few years of Biden in between we had time to prepare for the second.