(28 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Connecticut – 28 August 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC Director:
"This is unprecedented. There has never been a CDC director fired. And it appears that she was fired for standing up for saying things that are true and refusing to rubber-stamp things that are putting ideology into the recommendations of what vaccines our kids should get. And that was accompanied by a purge basically of more than a hundred years of experience, with people I know and I’ve worked with for many years who are deeply dedicated to public health."
++BLACK FRAMES++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC Director:
"What we’re seeing is an assault. It’s an assault on science. It’s an assault on CDC, and it is making Americans less safe."
++BLACK FRAMES++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC Director:
"Already we’re seeing the current administration using the CDC brand and putting out information that did not go through CDC processes. That’s really risky. That basically is, it says that for any of us, next time I get on the CDC website, I don’t know if I will be able to believe what it says."
++BLACK FRAMES++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC Director:
"Now we have ideology and partisan politics determining what the recommendations are for how to keep our kids safe and healthy. That’s not normal, and it’s not acceptable."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
The firing of the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the resignation of several high-profile agency leaders pose immediate challenges to the operations of the nation’s premiere public health agency, experts said.
The White House ousted CDC Director Susan Monarez on Wednesday after apparent clashes between the CDC director and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over changes to the nation’s vaccine policy.
Officials at the White House said Monarez was dismissed because she was not aligned with President Donald Trump’s agenda and refused to resign.
"This is unprecedented. There has never been a CDC director fired," said former CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden.
That action coincided with the resignation this week of at least four top CDC agency leaders: Dr. Debra Houry, the agency’s deputy director; Dr. Daniel Jernigan, leader of the agency’s work on emerging infectious diseases; Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a top vaccine official; and Dr. Jennifer Layden, who led public health data efforts.
"What we’re seeing is an assault. It’s an assault on science. It’s an assault on CDC, and it is making Americans less safe," Frieden said.
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