CDC officials escorted from headquarters as chaos engulfs public health agency

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Source: Associated Press

HEALTH
CDC officials escorted from headquarters as chaos engulfs public health agency

BY MIKE STOBBE, AMANDA SEITZ AND CHRIS MEGERIAN
Updated 4:31 PM EDT, August 28, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's top public health agency was left reeling and leaderless as the White House works to expel its handpicked director from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and three senior officials were escorted from its headquarters on Thursday.

The turmoil triggered rare bipartisan alarm as President Donald Trump's health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., tries to advance anti-vaccine policies that are contradicted by decades of scientific research.

The chaos comes weeks before a key advisory committee, which Kennedy has reshaped with vaccine skeptics, is expected to meet to issue new recommendations on immunizations.

Two Republican senators called for congressional oversight and some Democrats said Kennedy should be fired. He is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill on Sept. 4.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/cdc-monarez-fired-trump-kennedy-vaccines-science-17fd8a19064e39906bc0125fd81e3525

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AP images don't show up (easily) at DU. I urge you to take a look at them.

You'll have to go to YouTube to watch Fox5Atlanta's video. It's worth the trouble.

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Video:

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/cdc-director-susan-monarez-out-after-less-than-month-job

CDC faces leadership crisis as director ousted, senior officials resign

By Sam Daniel * Updated August 28, 2025 3:19pm EDT * Politics * FOX 5 Atlanta *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?vudy6xCvtqoY
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The Associated Press has video too. See this thread, from chowder66, in GD:

CDC Walkout Live
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220593626