{"id":71986,"date":"2026-04-17T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/inside-the-cdcs-leadership-vacuum-work-at-a-standstill-and-low-morale-as-80-of-top-posts-remain-vacant\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:58:00","slug":"inside-the-cdcs-leadership-vacuum-work-at-a-standstill-and-low-morale-as-80-of-top-posts-remain-vacant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/inside-the-cdcs-leadership-vacuum-work-at-a-standstill-and-low-morale-as-80-of-top-posts-remain-vacant\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the CDC\u2019s leadership vacuum: work at a \u2018standstill\u2019 and low morale as 80% of top posts remain vacant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current and ex-officials at the CDC warn Americans\u2019 health security in danger under RFK Jr\u2019s direction<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a> was sworn in as US health secretary, the country\u2019s prime public health agency over which he presides is in a state of disarray.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty per cent of the top director positions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stand vacant, with no permanent leader to drive policies affecting the health of millions of Americans. No one is in place to coordinate the agency\u2019s day-to-day work fighting infectious disease, combatting heart conditions or screening for cancer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/17\/cdc-rfk-jr-leadership-positions-empty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current and ex-officials at the CDC warn Americans\u2019 health security in danger under RFK Jr\u2019s direction Fourteen months after Robert F Kennedy Jr was sworn in as US health secretary, the country\u2019s prime public health agency over which he presides is in a state of disarray. Eighty per cent of the top director positions at &#8230; <a title=\"Inside the CDC\u2019s leadership vacuum: work at a \u2018standstill\u2019 and low morale as 80% of top posts remain vacant\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/inside-the-cdcs-leadership-vacuum-work-at-a-standstill-and-low-morale-as-80-of-top-posts-remain-vacant\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Inside the CDC\u2019s leadership vacuum: work at a \u2018standstill\u2019 and low morale as 80% of top posts remain vacant\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}