Three top officials who resigned this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in protest after the ouster of Director Susan Monarez said Thursday night that they would think twice about trusting public health information put out by the Trump administration.
“If it’s coming from CDC scientists, you can trust it. If it’s coming from the administration and hasn’t been cleared by CDC scientists, or reviewed by them, then I would have concerns,” Debra Houry, the CDC’s chief medical officer and deputy director for program and science, said during a joint interview Thursday evening on CNN.
The three medical professionals who spoke with the network’s Kaitlan Collins include Houry, Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and Daniel Jernigan, the former director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease. They all sent in their resignations Wednesday after Trump fired Monarez.