WASHINGTON — Susan Monarez, the first Senate-confirmed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been ousted after just a month on the job.

Monarez “is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people,” the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, said in a statement on social media. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the statement added, “has full confidence in his team at @CDCgov who will continue to be vigilant in protecting Americans against infectious diseases at home and abroad.”

News of the ouster came the same day that Kennedy announced on social media that the Food and Drug Administration had revoked emergency use authorization for Covid-19 vacc

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