The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, announced her resignation on Friday, citing the COVID-19 pandemic’s decline as a good time for a change.
According to CDC authorities, Walensky will retire on June 30. A temporary director was later announced. There are no details of Rochelle Walensky Arrested news.
She informed the CDC employees of her retirement and issued a resignation letter to Vice President Joe Biden.
Since Walensky, 54, has only been the agency’s director for over two years, many health professionals were caught off guard by the revelation.
Although she didn’t provide any specific reasons for her resignation in her letter to Biden, she did state that the country is going through a transition as emergency declarations end.
She expressed her “mixed feelings” about the choice. When Walensky was sworn in on the first day of the Biden administration, she had yet to gain experience managing a government health department.
She had previously worked as an infectious diseases expert at Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital.
Rochelle arrived with a reputation for being a vocal opponent of the government’s response to the outbreak.
Walensky was hired to boost morale at the CDC, restore public faith in the organization, and enhance its occasionally clumsy response to the pandemic.
