The United States is ill-prepared for another global pandemic, according to the outgoing director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Rochelle Walensky.
Walensky issued the warning in a New York Times guest essay published on June 27, just days before she is set to step down from her role.
President Joe Biden revealed earlier this month that Walensky, 54, will be replaced by Dr. Mandy Cohen, the former top health official in North Carolina who has aggressively supported COVID-19 vaccines and widespread masking.
In her essay, Walensky cited multiple public health challenges that have taken place across the world in recent years, including the ever-evolving COVID-19 pandemic, the monkeypox outbreak, and the largest outbreak of Ebola disease in Uganda, which was caused by the Sudan ebolavirus….