The following article by Lena H. Sun was posted on the Washington Post website January 31, 2018:
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This post has been updated.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resigned her position on Wednesday after only half a year because of “complex financial interests” that repeatedly forced her to recuse herself from the agency’s activities and kept her from testifying before lawmakers on public health issues.
According to a statement from the Health and Human Services department, Secretary Alex Azar, who was sworn in just two days ago, accepted Brenda Fitzgerald’s resignation because she could not divest from those interests “in a definitive time period.” Azar succeeded former Georgia congressman Tom Price, who was forced out in the fall following an uproar over his use of costly private charter aircraft for official travel. Continue reading “CDC director resigns because of conflicts over financial interests”