The White House has tapped Jim O’Neill, a top deputy to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following the ouster of Susan Monarez, who lasted mere weeks in her position.

Newsweek reached out to the White House by email outside of normal business hours on Thursday evening for comment.

Why It Matters

The White House removed CDC Director Susan Monarez from her post for not being “aligned with the President’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again,” according to White House spokesperson Kush Desai, but she’s now saying the decision must come directly from Trump, who has not said anything publicly about her ouster.

The move has prompted severe backlash from health officials and lawmakers, including former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden, who led the agency from 2009 to 2017, and Dr. Mandy Cohen, who served during the Biden administration.

Three other senior CDC officials resigned on Wednesday in reaction to her ouster: Dr. Debra Houry, the deputy director, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, head of the CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, head of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

Daskalakis specifically wrote a letter to Houry, which was posted on X, in which he said that he cannot “serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”  (See link for article)

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Best Quote:

“The CDC is in trouble, needs to be fixed.” ~ Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr

If ever there was a vast understatement, this would be it.  

According to the Independent Medical Alliance, the “rogue agency is long-overdue for a housecleaning.”

“This rogue agency has long since lost its focus on the core mission, instead becoming a hub for promoting government control and politically charged activism. It’s past time for the CDC to get a top-to-bottom house cleaning.” – Dr. Joseph Varonn August 15,

  • A crowdfunded lawsuit was filed (Thomas v. Monarez) against the CDC for recommending approximately 72 doses of vaccines to children without any studies ever having been done to examine the health effects of its vaccination schedule.  According to attorney Richard Jaffe, who filed the suit against the CDC on behalf of the plaintiffs,

This case puts the CDC’s entire childhood program on trial. For decades, the agency has demanded proof of harm while refusing to do the studies that could provide it, and physicians who attempt to fill that research gap or challenge the schedule or ACIP’s narrow contraindications and precautions framework are ridiculed and delicensed. Meanwhile, American children have become the sickest in the developed world under the most aggressive vaccine schedule on earth.

Instead of battling at the state level, attorney Rick Jaffe went straight for the source—demanding the CDC downgrade its 72-dose childhood schedule from “mandatory” to “shared decision-making.”

If the court agrees, state mandates collapse and the CDC’s grip on parents shatters overnight.

“They want to claim the program is safe? Fine, prove it.” ~ Richard Jaffe, Attorney

  • And pediatricians have filed a lawsuit against the CDC, challenging ‘unjust’ childhood ‘vaccine’ exemption criteria, the results of which force pediatricians and parents into ‘vaccinating’ children against either their better judgement and or parental wishes.
  • ICAN is calling on RFK to rein in flagrant industry influence on the CDC ‘vaccine’ committee.  Although hr prohibited ‘liaison organizations’ such as healthcare professions, insurance companies, and Big Pharma from participating in ACIP work groups, these organizations remain on the committee and retain far too much influence on the vaccine issue. One liaison member, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), happens to be one of Washington’s top lobbying spenders, representing companies like Pfizer and Merck. Another liaison member is the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which recently took the legally and  morally indefensible position of calling for the removal all non-medical vaccine exemptions in all 50 states and a crackdown on medical exemptions.

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I could literally go onto infinity with this.

The CDC is completely utterly corrupt and not to be trusted.