Interview highlightsLeila Fadel: Where do these departures leave the CDC in the short term without them? These leaders who resigned oversaw enormous parts of the agency that are there in crisis and in peace time. You know, people don’t think about CDC every day unless there’s an enormous outbreak or a pandemic. FADEL: Where do these departures of people who – you know, the chief medical officer, the top respiratory illness and immunization official. You know, people don’t think about CDC every day unless there’s, you know, an enormous outbreak or a pandemic.