{"id":81395,"date":"2025-08-31T14:44:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/can-americans-trust-the-cdc-former-officials-weigh-in\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T14:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:44:33","slug":"can-americans-trust-the-cdc-former-officials-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/can-americans-trust-the-cdc-former-officials-weigh-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Americans trust the CDC? Former officials weigh in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, CDC Director Susan Monarez was ousted from her position after clashing with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy over <!--more--> vaccine policy and her refusal to fire several veteran CDC leaders, according to people familiar with the situation. Her removal was followed by the resignations of several senior leaders. <\/p>\n<p>Late this week, Kennedy said Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O\u2019Neill will serve as acting director of the CDC. \u201cOur agency is crumbling,\u201d a source within the CDC, who is not allowed to speak to the media and did not want to be identified for fear of retribution, told CNN after Monarez\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju speaks with former CDC chief medical officer Dr. Debra Houry and former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden.  #CNN #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, CDC Director Susan Monarez was ousted from her position after clashing with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}