In an announcement on Friday, the head of the beleaguered agency said she would step down in June. βWe made this world a safer place,β she said.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will step down from her position on June 30, she announced on Friday, capping a tumultuous tenure at the nationβs leading public health agency as it struggled to rein in the Covid-19 pandemic, the greatest threat to American well-being in decades.