The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several top officials are departing in a massive shakeup at the embattled agency.

Susan Monarez, the CDC director , was fired just shy of a month into her role. At least four other officials have also submitted their resignations.

“Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” a post on the Department of Health and Human Services' X account said Wednesday. “We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people.”

The post went on to say that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has full confidence that the CDC “will continue to be vigilant in protecting Americans against infectious diseases at home and abroad.”

The Washington Post first reported on Monarez's ousti

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