A word of caution to the Trump administration as it carries out much-needed reforms across the nation’s public-health agencies: Purging the arrogance and ideology that drove insane COVID policies is a must, but Health and Human Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a terribly flawed tool for doing it.

It now looks like RFK’s no. 2, Jim O’Neill, will (at least for now) replace Centers for Disease Control Director Susan Monarez, who abruptly got booted Wednesday.

President Donald Trump tapped Monarez for the job in March; the Senate finally confirmed her just a month ago (Democrats are full-court delaying all Trump nominations) — and now she’s already gone, by at least some accounts for taking issue with her boss’ firing of all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee in June

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