On Friday, Dr. Rochelle Walensky declared that she will be resigning from her position as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to a statement from the CDC, Walensky will step down on June 30.
For more than two years, she led the Biden administration’s pandemic response.
Walensky’s announcement comes one day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency.
The Washington Times has more on her resignation:
Walensky, 54, has been the agency’s director for a little over two years. In her letter to Biden, she expressed “mixed feelings” about the decision and didn’t say exactly why she was stepping down, but said the nation is at a moment of transition as emergency declarations come to an end.
“I have never been prouder of anything I have done in my professional career,” she wrote.
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The CDC, with a $12 billion budget and more than 12,000 employees. is an Atlanta-based federal agency charged with protecting Americans from disease outbreaks and other public health threats.
Walensky, previously an infectious-diseases specialist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, had no experience running a government health agency when she was sworn in on the first day of the Biden administration.
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Victory
But whose gonna replace her same GIGO?