The recent ouster of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez and the resignations of top officials mark not just an institutional crisis but the latest chapter in a political war on evidence-based public health. This purge is not reform. It is the culmination of a right-wing assault that began in President Donald Trump’s first term, when science was mocked, expertise sidelined and conspiracy theories elevated above epidemiology.
The CDC is under siege. The poor will pay the price
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