NEW: The CDC has been in crisis for months. After the firing of its director, resignations of senior leaders, staff + experts are bracing for what could be death knell for public health credibility. Me + @laurenweberhp.bsky.social + @davidovalle.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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People working at the CDC have known this was coming for months and it takes someone really special to hang in there an fight on all fronts for what is right.
“I never have seen an instance of an advanced, affluent country with among the finest scientific resources and leaders in the world be under assault, not from small pockets of the public or people who have unusual beliefs, but from the government itself,” said Allan Brandt, Harvard historian.
“We are just taking punch after punch with nobody, even pretending to be in our corner anymore,” said one senior CDC official.
“Scientific independence is what builds trust,” said Marion Koopmans, director of pandemic and disaster preparedness center in the Netherlands. “Political interventions really erode that trust.”
It means we have arrived at the killing times.
The CDC has been in trouble since Covid. It’s reputation has been deeply tarnished.
Thank you all for writing this piece. Congrat's on the front page today.
your reporting of "ouster" doesn't seem conclusive to me you write "months of tension...with the ouster"--but the link says "moved to oust" and is not conclusive (where's Trump's signature? esp. given his autopen rants) and you say Jim O'Neill posted Fri but link is to a Thurs. article puzzling