Top-level resignations at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention come just after CDC chief Susan Monarez is ousted less than a month into the job
“I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health”, Dr Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned on Wednesday from his position as the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC told colleagues in an email obtained by STAT, a health news site.
Those concerns were echoed by another departing CDC leader, Dr Deb Houry, the chief medical officer, who wrote that “ongoing changes prevent me from continuing in my job as a leader of the agency” adding that science should “never be censored or subject to political interpretations.”
