CDC Turmoil: White House Reportedly Taps New Director Amid Staffer Walkout [View all]

Source: Forbes



By Antonio Pequeño IV,


Aug 28, 2025, 05:39pm EDTAug 28, 2025, 06:35pm EDT


The White House selected Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill as the next acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to The Washington Post, tapping the technology investor for the role as former CDC leadership protested against the Trump administration and its contested firing of ex-CDC Director Susan Monarez.

Key Facts

O’Neill has been tapped to take over as the acting director of the CDC, the Post reported, citing two unnamed sources familiar with the decision who said O’Neill would maintain his role as HHS deputy secretary.

Hundreds of staffers and protesters demonstrated outside the CDC’s Atlanta headquarters Thursday afternoon for at least an hour..........................


Houry said her and CDC leadership “reached a tipping point,” calling out HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promotion of “vitamins over vaccines” and saying “we knew it was a powerful statement for the three of us to do this together.”.....................

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We will have to have a full blown epidemic for enough people to wake up IMHO.
And of course I or any sane person does not want that.
People woke up a few years back when thousands died of Covid and got vaccinated!
I do not understand how so many can have such short memories of all those deaths!!


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Dr. Daniel Jernigan, leader of the agency's work on emerging infectious diseases; left, Dr. Debra Houry, the agency's deputy director and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a top vaccine official, gather at the walkout. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)
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