An exit interview with CDC director Mandy Cohen
STAT December 16, 2024
An exit interview with CDC director Mandy Cohen
CDC director Mandy Cohen (pictured above) is in the final days of her tenure at the federal health agency, but she’s got plenty of work left to do. She’s in persuasion mode, as STAT’s Helen Branswell puts it, simultaneously trying to sell the incoming administration on the message that the CDC has changed and calm nervous staff about what’s to come. (On deck to replace her is doctor and former congressman Dave Weldon, who asserts that childhood vaccines are linked to rising autism rates.)
“Folks may have an image of what CDC was in April of 2020 during the [first] Trump administration. And I want folks to make sure that they take...