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ReutersSchwartz, who served during Trump's first term, was directly involved in the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, overseeing national preparedness and public health coordination efforts.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social, also said he was naming healthcare executive Sean Slovenski, Texas health commissioner Jen Shuford and top FDA official Sara Brenner to senior CDC roles.
Trump fired CDC Director Susan Monarez last August over her objections to vaccine policy changes planned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Her position was filled by two acting directors: Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill, who was succeeded in February by Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.


