{"id":119850,"date":"2025-08-30T02:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/119850\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T02:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:41:15","slug":"ama-deeply-troubled-by-cdc-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/119850\/","title":{"rendered":"AMA deeply troubled by CDC turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following statement is attributable to:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/about\/board-trustees\/bobby-mukkamala-md\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby M. Mukkamala, MD<\/a><br \/>President, American Medical Association<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night\u2019s removal of CDC Director Susan Monarez and the resignations of other senior CDC leaders are highly alarming at a challenging moment for public health. This destabilization comes at a time when CDC\u2019s credibility and leadership are more essential than ever. In the wake of CDC budget cuts and the termination of hundreds of employees earlier this year, the AMA is deeply concerned that this turmoil leaves us highly susceptible to public health threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must restore confidence in our public health institutions to ensure that scientific expertise and data drive guidance and policy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following statement is attributable to:Bobby M. Mukkamala, MDPresident, American Medical Association \u201cLast night\u2019s removal of CDC Director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-119850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}