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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez, has been ousted from her role as head of the public health agency, a source familiar with the matter told the BBC's US partner CBS News. It comes less than a month after she was confirmed by the Senate. It is unclear why she was removed from the job.

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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed her departure in a post on X, thanking her "for her dedicated service to the American people." Ms Monarez, a long time federal government scientist, was nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the CDC and was confirmed in a Senate vote in July.

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Banana Republic.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-27 07:33 PM | Reply

Bwahaha. Another DUI hire for PEDO DONNIE.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-27 08:18 PM | Reply

No Fox News, drinking, or spouse abuse background, prolly.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-27 08:20 PM | Reply

Whole bunch of high level career CDC professionals quit over vaccine policy

Thanks magat scum

#4 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-08-27 10:42 PM | Reply

I bet this has something to do with Dr Monarez and her skepticism of RFK's claim that he identified the issues causing autism. RFK Jr is supposed to hold a press conference in September. Dummkopf Trumpf is going to continue appointing quacks, mountebanks, and grifters to the junta and the US Senate will confirm them. The GOP really cares about the health and welfare of the American people:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bSRo51SbQQs/mqdefault.jpg

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-27 10:44 PM | Reply

Apparently RFK dictated to her a new covid vaccine policy ie who would get it etc. She responded with she wanted to contact the professionals. RFK flipped out called her insubordinate and "fired her" Jury out on whether he can fire her-she is senate confirmed.

Sounds like she didn't want to just fall in line with the jefe without consulting with people who actually know what they are talking about and got fired for it.

Whole bunch of career CDC professionals resign in protest.

TL:DR

America is fucked

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-08-27 10:52 PM | Reply

x.com

resignation letter of a high CDC professional

"Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people."

WOW

Read it, it's depressing

Thanks magat scum

#7 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-08-27 10:55 PM | Reply

"The recent term of reference for the COVID vaccine work group created by this ACIP puts people of dubious intent and more dubious scientific rigor in charge of recommending vaccine policy to a director hamstrung and sidelined by an authoritarian leader. Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults. Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc."

WOW
WOW

And for the idiots out there. This is the type of guy who has studied this for decades. When he says stuff like this he knows what he is talking about.

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-08-27 10:57 PM | Reply

"We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary. I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us. Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources. "

WOWOWOW

"The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer."

Just unbelievable

You morons who don't think this stuff matters.

What he is saying and resigning over is the fact that RFK will be getting rid of vaccines for measles, chicken pox, polio and a whole host of other diseases for "natural infection and unproven remedies". He is doing this without CDC input, you know, the experts on this shit.

Why this matters?

If the CDC and FDA don't approve vaccines they don't get covered by insurance.

They are also talking about stripping pharmaceutical companies from liability protections for vaccines, meaning NO NEW VACCINES

Thanks magat scum. This is the type of health disaster that will push us back a 100 years and take years off of people's life expectancy

#9 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-08-27 11:04 PM | Reply

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