The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as the next CDC Director in a party-line vote.
NEW: Dr. Erica Schwartz has been confirmed as the next CDC director in a party-line Senate vote, taking over as a Cyclospora outbreak linked to contaminated lettuce spreads across the U.S.
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President Trump in April announced new leadership for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The President nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz as the new CDC Director, Sean Slovenski as the CDC Deputy Director and Dr. Jennifer Shuford as the CDC Deputy Director.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a friend of The Gateway Pundit, was serving as the Acting CDC Director until his role recently expired.
Trump also announced that Dr. Sara Brenner will serve as Senior Counselor for Public Health to HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
Trump’s full statement:
I am pleased to announce the new leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is my Honor to nominate the incredibly talented Dr. Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH, as my Director of the CDC.
Erica graduated from Brown University for College and Medical School, and served a distinguished career as a Doctor of Medicine in the United States Military, the Greatest and Most Powerful Force in the World, and then served as my Deputy Surgeon General during my First Term.
She is a STAR!
I am also pleased to announce the appointment of Sean Slovenski as the CDC Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Jennifer Shuford, MD, MPH, as the CDC Deputy Director and Chief Medical Officer, and Dr. Sara Brenner, MD, MPH, as Senior Counselor for Public Health to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
These Highly Respected Doctors of Medicine have the knowledge, experience, and TOP degrees to restore the GOLD STANDARD OF SCIENCE at the CDC, which was an absolute disaster focused on “mandates” under Sleepy Joe.
Together, they will do a TREMENDOUS job leading the CDC as we continue to MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AND GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Last summer CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired less than a month on the job.
According to The Washington Post, Monarez departed the CDC over RFK Jr.’s push to change vaccine policy.
Following the departure of Dr. Monarez, three senior CDC officials resigned per The Hill and PBS: Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Daniel Jernigan, director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and CDC Chief Medical Officer Deb Houry.
Daskalakis, a radical leftist who rose to prominence during the monkeypox outbreak wrote in an email obtained by The Hill: “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health.”
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