{"id":10678,"date":"2026-02-23T23:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/ralph-abraham-cdc-resigns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:02:28","slug":"ralph-abraham-cdc-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/ralph-abraham-cdc-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Abraham, No. 2 official at CDC, abruptly steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Ralph Abraham, No. 2 official at CDC, abruptly steps down<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The drama and chaos surrounding the leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have taken another twist, with the announcement Monday that the agency\u2019s No. 2 official, Ralph Abraham, has resigned.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2026\/2026-statement-on-the-resignation-of-the-cdc-principal-deputy-director.html\">statement posted to the CDC\u2019s website<\/a> said Abraham, a former Louisiana surgeon general who was sworn in as the agency\u2019s deputy secretary general only 2 1\/2 months ago, stepped down to address \u201cunforeseen family obligations.\u201d The resignation is effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/23\/ralph-abraham-cdc-resigns\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Helen Branswell<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/23\/ralph-abraham-cdc-resigns\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Abraham, No. 2 official at CDC, abruptly steps down The drama and chaos surrounding the leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have taken another twist, with the announcement Monday that the agency\u2019s No. 2 official, Ralph Abraham, has resigned. A statement posted to the CDC\u2019s website said Abraham, a former Louisiana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2216,2145,2144,2180],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-cdc","category-politics","category-public-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}