Walensky Announces Departure from CDC

The White House announced Friday that Rochelle Walensky will be stepping down as director of the CDC. Walensky said in a letter to the president that the end of the COVID public health emergency marks the end of her "tenure as CDC director." Walensky has led CDC through a transition to greater normalcy across the country, after two years of COVID-19 related closures and waves of dangerous, new virus variants. She also launched Moving Forward – a wide-ranging set of reforms designed to strengthen CDC communications and response operations. Walensky described this moment for the agency and the country in a letter to President Joe Biden. She "leaves CDC a stronger institution, better positioned to confront health threats and protect Americans," Biden said. Read more from CDC here.