The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in upheaval, and the consequences are falling hardest on Black Americans.

President Donald Trump fired CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez less than a month after her Senate confirmation.

Monarez, a microbiologist and epidemiologist, was removed after refusing to sign off on directives pushed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that her lawyers called “reckless and unscientific.”

Her dismissal triggered mass resignations from senior leaders, including Dr. Debra Houry, the agency’s chief science and medical officer; Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, head of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Dr. Daniel Jernigan, director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and Dr. Jennifer Layden, direc

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