Trump taps Erica Schwartz to lead the CDC amid vaccine-policy tensions
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President Trump nominated Erica Schwartz, a Coast Guard rear admiral and former deputy surgeon general, to head the CDC, filling a vacancy since Susan Monarez was ousted over vaccine-policy clashes; Schwartz holds an MD and a law degree, has 24 years in the Public Health Service, and would replace the interim leadership overseen by NIH director Jay Bhattacharya as vaccine-policy changes pushed by RFK Jr. faced controversy.
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