{"id":9653,"date":"2026-02-06T14:37:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/?p=9653"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:15:30","slug":"cdc-carries-on-without-a-permanent-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/?p=9653","title":{"rendered":"CDC carries on without a permanent director"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/infectious-disease\/20260206\/cdc-carries-on-without-a-permanent-director\"  style=\"font-weight: 600;letter-spacing: 0.4pt;text-decoration: underline;\">Click here<\/a> <\/strong>to view the original post by<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/ophthalmology\"  style=\"font-weight: 600;letter-spacing: 0.4pt;text-decoration: underline;\">Healio Ophthalmology<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">In addition to our own original articles, the <a href=\"\/\">Retina Consultant<\/a> team expertly curates relevant news and research from leading publications.to provide our readers with a comprehensive view of the retina &amp; <\/span><span class=\"s1\">ophthalmology landscape,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Full credit <\/span><span class=\"s1\">belongs to the original authors and publication.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">By clicking the link above, you will be leaving our site to view an article from its original source.<\/span><\/em><!-- wp:separator {\"className\":\"is-style-wide\",\"style\":{\"color\":{\"background\":\"#eaeaea\"}}} --><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color: #eaeaea; color: #eaeaea;\" \/>\n<p><strong>Sharpen your perspective. 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Kennedy Jr. (a lawyer), Jim O\u2019Neill (a biotech investor) and CDC Chief of Staff Matthew Buzzelli (a lawyer) have made key decisions at the CDC that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a year into the second Trump administration, the CDC is still operating without a permanent director \u2014 which, former CDC officials said, puts national health and safety at risk.\u201cThis is dangerous,\u201d Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, who served as CDC director during Barack Obama\u2019s two-term presidency, told Healio. \u201cAmericans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9654,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cdc-tada-images.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cdc-tada-images.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Healio Ophthalmology","author_link":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/?author=21"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retinaconsultant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}