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CDC · United StatesWhen the White House fired Susan Monarez as director of the premier U.S. public health agency, it was clear to two of the scientific leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the political meddling would not end and it was time to quit.See the Story
Departing CDC officials say Monarez’s firing was the final straw and political meddling is a problem
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CDC · United StatesThe White House on Thursday selected a top deputy of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after a clash over vaccine policy ended in the departure of several agency leaders, according to two people familiar with the decision.
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Kennedy names deputy Jim O’Neill as acting CDC director after Monarez ouster
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US Politics · United StatesSen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services’ advisory committee on immunization practices (ACIP) to indefinitely postpone a Sept. 18 meeting in the aftermath of a shake-up at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that resulted in the ouster of Director Susan Monarez.
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GOP Health Committee chair calls for CDC vaccine advisers’ meeting to be postponed
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