The resignations came the same day that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a slew of changes to limit access to the COVID-19 vaccine, and just hours after news broke that CDC Director Susan Monarez was ousted from the agency.
Demetre C. Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Daniel Jernigan, director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and CDC Chief Medical Officer Debra Houry have all submitted their resignations, according to emails shared with The Hill.
NBC News reported that Dr. Jen Layden, director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology, also resigned.
In his email announcing his resignation, Daskalakis wrote, “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health.”
Daskalakis came to public prominence during the mpox outbreak of 2022, leading the U.S.’s response to the disease that spread primarily through the social networks of men who have sex with men.
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