(Health and Human Services via AP)

There was a notable absence last week when HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a 58-second video that the government would no longer endorse the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children or pregnant women.

The director of the CDC -- the person who typically signs off on federal vaccine recommendations -- was nowhere to be seen.

The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases, and watching for budding threats to Americans' health, is without a clear leader .

"I've been disappointed that we haven't had an aggressive director since -- February, March, April, May -- fighting for the resources that CDC needs," said Robert Redfield, MD, who served as CDC director under the first Trump admini

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