Overview

• The Washington Post reported the White House plans to install tech investor Jim O’Neill, a close ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as acting CDC director.
• Nine former CDC directors warned in a New York Times letter that politicized decision-making is dismantling public-health policy and endangering Americans.
• Susan Monarez was removed less than a month into the job after, according to her lawyers, she declined to validate directives they described as non-scientific and dangerous.
• Senior vaccination official Demetre Daskalakis resigned and said the line between science and ideology has been “totally torn down.”
• Former CDC director Tom Frieden called the firing unprecedented and said public health is under attack, while Sanders urged Kennedy to step down.