Anonymousabout 13 hours ago
President Trump has nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz, a retired Coast Guard rear admiral and former deputy surgeon general, to lead a CDC that has lost roughly a third of its workforce and gone over a year without a permanent director. Schwartz brings military public health credentials including pandemic policy development and vaccination program oversight, but faces a confirmation gauntlet shaped by the firing of her predecessor and ongoing tensions between HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and career public health officials.