Under the current administrations at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services, America’s healthcare is set to crumble. On August 29, 2025, Jim O’Neill was appointed to replace Dr. Susan Monarez as Director of the CDC.
Dr. Susan Monarez was fired on Wednesday, August 27, 2025. Initially, Dr. Monarez refused to resign when Marco Rubio had originally fired her. Unfortunately, President Donald Trump has asked her to resign, which she cannot fight. Although she was appointed by Donald Trump back in July of 2025, their differences in science is what Dr. Monarez believes this led to her less than a month as director.
Dr. Monarez stated in an Al Jazeera article about her resignation that, “science at the CDC should never be censored or subject to political interpretations,” this is in relation to Robert F. Kennedy’s notes that vaccines are related to autism and Trump’s notations on the COVID vaccine. Inaccurate and misinformation has been on the rise recently with more controversial matters making the news.
Following the resignation, four other doctors from the CDC decided to resign to protest the decision of firing Dr. Monarez. Science and politics should never mix. This is a scenario which has been seen over the course of history. Presently in America however, this has happened numerous times over the last 10 years.
In 2019, the discovery of the coronavirus was the first domino to fall in a long chain. The dispute of what to do about the pandemic became a major political campaigning point. This turned people against each other because they believed a politician more about what to do about vaccines than what the scientists and doctors were saying. Even so, doctors and scientists began to swing in a political direction sometimes, which was unethical. When the covid vaccination was released to the public in 2020, many people became even more sceptical about the procedure. However, this wasn’t science’s fault, it was the fault of two overarching political parties that the American people had put their trust in to.
Today, there are still disputes about what to do when it comes to vaccines and mandates, the conversation of how effective masks are. The mixing of politics and science puts the health of the American people at danger. Instead of citizens listening to the Health Department, they listen to politicians who are spreading misinformation with a stigma.
Currently, the CDC and Health Department are both political offices more than they are research centers for actual human health. Robert F. Kennedy and Jim O’Neill have led or been apart of numerous anti vaccine campaigns and organizations. Now, they’re the head of America’s health. With more qualified officials either resigning or being fired from the CDC and Health Department, America’s health is in the utmost danger as less people know how to handle pathological situations.
