CDC gets new acting director as leadership turmoil leaves agency reeling

New York — Jim O’Neil, Deputy Minister of Health Robert F. will work. Kennedy Junior, as the Acting Director of Disease Control and Prevention Centers, according to the administration official.

The official asked not to disclose his identity to discuss the change of employees has not been officially announced. The administration wants to replace Susan Monares, who is trying to remove only one month after starting the task.

Monarerez is fighting to keep her job. It was left to remove the best public health agency in the country, and three senior officials from its administrative headquarters were accompanied on Thursday.

The rare stimulant disorders of the two parties raised the Kennedy trying to advance in contradictory toxicity policies with contracts of scientific research.

The chaos comes weeks ago before a major consulting committee, which Kennedy reinforced by questioning vaccines, met to issue new recommendations on vaccinations.

Two Republican Senators called for the supervision of Congress and some Democrats said that Kennedy should be expelled. It is scheduled to witness the Capitol Hill on September 4.

No explanation was provided to prolong the director of the Disease Control Center

Kennedy did not explain the decision to expel Suzanne Monares as director of diseases control centers less than a month after her intervention, but she warned that more rotation might come.

“There is a lot of trouble in the center of diseases control, and it will require the disposal of some people in the long run, in order to change the institutional culture,” Kennedy told a news conference in Texas.

Only the White House said that Monarerez “was not aligned with” President Donald Trump’s agenda. There is no word at a time when an alternative can be named.

Monares’s lawyers said that she rejected “non -scientific, non -scientific directives, and firefighting health experts.” She fights her dismissal, saying that the decision should come directly from Trump, who nominated her in March.

The epic began on Wednesday night with the announcement of the administration that Monares no longer leads the center of diseases control. In response, three officials – Dr. Dibra Horte, Dr. Demeter Daskalakis and Dr. Daniel Generangan – resigned from senior roles in the agency.

Monarerez tried to prevent political intervention, says CDC officials.

Officials returned to the office on Thursday to collect their property, and employees of the besieged agency had planned to gather in the afternoon to prove them while they were leaving the Atlanta campus. But their removal by security personnel early this morning has crushed these plans, according to the current and former employees.

Hurai and Daslakis told Associated Press that Monares tried to protect from political intervention in the recommendations of scientific research and health.

“We would have seen whether she was able to overcome the storm. When it was not, we have finished,” Hiray said. She was the deputy director of the agency and the chief medical official.

Daskalakis resigned as head of the National Center for Vaccination and Respiratory Diseases and Gynenejan from the National Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the facility

If removed, Monarerez will be the shortest way out since the foundation of the Disease Control Center in 1946, which exacerbates the leadership vacuum that has continued since Trump took office. Initially chose David Wildon, a former member of Congress in Florida, a skeptical doctor and vaccine, but he extracted the nomination in March.

Monarerez, a long -term government scientist, has been exploited next to an agency worth $ 9.2 billion while working as a temporary manager. But the questions appeared immediately inside the Kennedy circle about its loyalty to the movement “Make America healthy again”, especially given its previous support for the Covid-19 vaccinations that Kennedy criticized routinely.

Vaccine change changes
Kennedy Monarerez rarely mentioned by the way the leaders of other health agency, such as Mohamed Oz, from medical care centers and medical services, or Marti Macari from the Food and Drug Administration.

The flash point was to deal with Kennedy with the Consultative Consulting Committee of the Center for Disease Control, which he tried to reshape it since the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services took over.

The committee is expected to meet next month, and Senator Bill Casidi, R. La said. , Any recommendations issued after that will “lack legitimacy.”

Cassidy, who heads the Senate Committee, oversees the Kennedy department: “serious allegations have been presented on the agenda of the meeting and membership and the absence of a scientific process,” said Cassidy, who heads the Senate Committee supervising the Kennedy section. He added that “these decisions directly affect the health of children and the meeting should not happen until great supervision is held.”

Cassidy, a doctor, gave decisive support for Kennedy’s nomination after he said that Kennedy assured him that he would not drop the childhood vaccination program in the country.

The Consulting Committee for Irrational Practices is a group of external experts who make recommendations to the director of the Disease Control Center on how to use vaccines. The recommendations are then approved by doctors, school systems, health insurance companies, and others.

Kennedy has long been a pioneer in the Anti -Qahle Movement, and in June, he suddenly rejected the entire painting, accusing members of being close to manufacturers. Replace them with a group that included many skeptics of vaccines, then closed the door for many doctors’ organizations that have long helped form the vaccine recommendations.

The officials of the Center for Control of Diseases leaves concern that the flag will be at risk
Hurai and Daslakis said that Monarerez tried to make sure that there were scientific guarantees.

For example, I tried to replace the official who coordinated the committee’s meetings with someone with more experience in politics. It also prompted Monarerez to slices and reviews that were published weeks before the committee’s meetings and made the sessions open for public suspension.

Horay said that HHS officials delivered this and called Monares to attend a meeting in Washington on Monday.

Dascalakis described the situation as unimaginable.

“I reached the personal point where I think our knowledge will be at risk, and this is my lineage in the sand,” he said.

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