{"id":6924,"date":"2025-09-17T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/monarez-senate-testimony-reveals-cdc-in-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:02:21","slug":"monarez-senate-testimony-reveals-cdc-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/monarez-senate-testimony-reveals-cdc-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear and politics pervade Kennedy\u2019s CDC, former leaders testify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Fear and politics pervade Kennedy\u2019s CDC, former leaders testify<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 nation\u2019s top health agency is not well, according to a portrait that emerged in testimony Wednesday by two of its former leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Monarez, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/28\/cdc-director-fired-behind-the-scenes-look\/\">abruptly fired<\/a> 29 days into her tenure as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Debra Houry, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/28\/profiles-cdc-officials-who-resigned-in-protest\/\">resigned as chief medical officer<\/a> that day, provided new detail about stresses on the agency under questioning at a hearing before a Senate health committee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/17\/monarez-senate-testimony-reveals-cdc-in-crisis\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Elizabeth Cooney<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/17\/monarez-senate-testimony-reveals-cdc-in-crisis\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear and politics pervade Kennedy\u2019s CDC, former leaders testify The nation\u2019s top health agency is not well, according to a portrait that emerged in testimony Wednesday by two of its former leaders. Susan Monarez, abruptly fired 29 days into her tenure as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Debra Houry, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,2362,1428,2147,2179,2144,2149,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-6924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-chronic-disease","category-health","category-hhs","category-infectious-disease","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924"}],"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=6924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}