At MedPageToday Dr. Mary Meyer
wrote, "While it's tempting to label this just one more upheaval in an upheaval-prone administration, the impact of these departures on our nation's leading public health institution will be far-reaching. Although the director was less than a month into her job, the other leaders were widely respected and boasted decades of cumulative experience at CDC. They leave behind an agency stripped of leadership, still
reeling from a shootingopens in a new tab or window 2½ weeks ago, and hamstrung by political ideology. As a clinician, I'm deeply worried. The grim reality is that the effects of this mass exodus are likely to reverberate in every corner of our nation's public health infrastructure and across every specialty in medicine. The evisceration of the CDC is a disaster for all of us."