US CDC chief fired after weeks in role as other top officials quit agency

Submission Statement:

The director of the United States’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job, and several top agency leaders have resigned.

Susan Monarez is not “aligned with” President Donald Trump’s agenda and refused to resign, so the White House terminated her, deputy press secretary Kush Desai said on Wednesday night.

The US Department of Health and Human Services had announced her departure in a brief social media post on Wednesday afternoon.

Her lawyers responded with a statement, saying Monarez had neither resigned nor been told she was fired.

“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted,” lawyers Mark Zaid and Abbe David Lowell wrote in a statement.

“This is not about one official. It is about the systematic dismantling of public health institutions, the silencing of experts, and the dangerous politicization of science. The attack on Dr Monarez is a warning to every American: our evidence-based systems are being undermined from within,” they said.

This is just all the vested interest people in sinecure positions who are resistant to change being shaken out by an administration actually interested in positive change, rather than talking about improvement while doing exactly nothing.

Im sure pfizer will hire her for a top spot no worries

There’s a reason China is moving fast. We have so many ways for people to stall and not allow change. That only works well in a world without competition and the threat of others annihilating the country because of it (china, russia, etc)