The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has five key leaders who are publicly accusing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of weaponizing public health and putting lives in danger.

Within the span of one day, four key leaders at the CDC announced their resignations, and the HHS announced CDC Director Susan Monarez would no longer be working at the agency, though she is pushing back on her ouster.

These developments follow a tumultuous few weeks for the CDC, during which a shooting at the agency’s Atlanta headquarters killed a police officer, and roughly 600 staffers were laid off soon after.

At the center of it all is a bubbling tension over what staffers say is an effort by HHS leadership to throttle vaccine access and pl

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