(Reuters) – Nancy Messonnier, a senior health official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will resign from her position, she told colleagues in an email on Friday, The Washington Post reported.
Messonnier’s resignation is effective May 14, the report said. (https://wapo.st/33oXqLi)
Messonnier, who warned the United States about the COVID-19 pandemic last year, was the director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases since 2016 and was replaced in 2020.
(Reporting by Dania Nadeem in Bengaluru; Editing by Amy Caren Daniel)
