Director Brenda Fitzgerald, who joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention only in midsummer, held "complex financial interests" that had repeatedly forced her to recuse herself from the agency's activities and kept her from testifying before lawmakers on public health issues.
Her new boss, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, announced Wednesday morning that he had accepted her resignation because she could not "divest from them in a definitive time period." |
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