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Top CDC Officials Resign After Director Is Pushed Out

The exodus has set off alarms among CDC staff: “My main concern is they will be replaced with puppets."

“I worry that political appointees will not make decisions on the science, but instead focus on supporting the administration’s agenda,” says one CDC employee, who was granted anonymity out of concerns over retribution. President Donald Trump’s original pick to lead the CDC was David Weldon, a physician and previous Republican congressman from Florida who had a history of making statements questioning the safety of vaccines. The following month, he fired all 17 sitting members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of independent experts that makes science-based recommendations on vaccines.

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