Special Edition: CDC Shake-Up – Trust, Vaccines & Future of Public Health
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 13 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The CDC is in turmoil after its director was fired and several senior leaders resigned in protest. At the same time, new vaccine guidelines are fueling confusion and debate. We break down what these shake-ups mean for science, public trust, and families heading into sick season.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, September 13th. We're taking a closer look at public health in America, |
| 0:05.2 | from chaos at the CDC to questions around vaccine policy and trust. Coming up later, you'll hear |
| 0:10.7 | from Dr. Caitlin Jedalina, an epidemiologist, professor at Yale, and the co-founder of the Health |
| 0:15.4 | Trust Initiative. She also publishes the popular newsletter, Your Local Epidemiologist, and was |
| 0:20.5 | named one of Times' most influential people in health. |
| 0:23.2 | She's been going to make America healthy again, aka MAHA meetings, so she's going to be sharing her takeaways. |
| 0:29.4 | From why she agrees the health system is failing some Americans to what can actually be done about it. |
| 0:34.8 | But first, Dr. Celine Gounder joins me. |
| 0:36.9 | She's an internist, |
| 0:37.8 | infectious disease specialist, and epidemiologist. She's also editor at large for public health |
| 0:42.4 | at KFF Health News, a CBS News medical contributor, and a clinical associate professor at NYU. |
| 0:48.2 | She'll help us break down what's been going on inside the CDC lately and why trust and |
| 0:52.3 | science itself may be at stake. |
| 1:00.3 | Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy Special Edition Saturday, when we sit down with a different expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. Don't forget to tune in |
| 1:04.3 | every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes when we provide all the day's news in just |
| 1:08.8 | 10 minutes. It's fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm Erica Mandy. It's time for today's special edition Saturday. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 1:21.2 | Dr. Celine Gounder, thank you so much for joining us here on the Newsworthy. It's my pleasure. |
| 1:25.5 | So let's just start with the more recent news and some of the |
| 1:28.4 | turmoil that's been happening at the CDC. The agency's director was ousted. Several other senior |
| 1:33.8 | leaders have quit in protest. So we've been covering this on our daily news show, but what do you |
| 1:39.4 | think is the most important thing or takeaway for the average American to know about the situation. |
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