Rochelle Walensky stepping down as CDC director

Dr. Rochelle Walensky is stepping down as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), President Biden said in a statement Friday. The CDC said she will leave the agency at the end of June. 

Walensky has overseen the agency responsible for much of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic since the early days of the Biden administration in 2021. Her departure comes as the U.S. is terminating public health and emergency declarations related to the pandemic, and on the same day the World Health Organization declared an end to the global health emergency from COVID-19.