Top officials who resigned their positions at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the ouster of the agency’s director were escorted out of the building Thursday morning.

The shakeup at CDC comes at the Senate Committee on Finance announced US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify on September 4 about President Donald Trump’s health agenda.

Amid abrupt changes that have left the CDC leaderless, agency staff had been planning a show of respect called a “clap out” Thursday afternoon for the officials who resigned, including Dr. Deb Houry, the chief medical officer, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, chief of vaccines and respiratory diseases chief, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

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