Jim O'Neill, a former investor, critic of health regulations and U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s deputy, is taking control of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following a tumultuous week in which the agency's director was forced out.

O'Neill was picked by U.S. President Donald Trump to be the CDC's interim director, supplanting Susan Monarez , a longtime government scientist.

Monarez had been the CDC director for less than a month. Her lawyers said she refused "to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts."

O'Neill takes over an agency that has been rocked by firings , resignations and efforts by Kennedy to reshape the nation's vaccine policies to match his long-standing suspicions about the safety and eff

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