Outgoing CDC Chief Rochelle Walensky Warns US ‘Ill Prepared' for Next Pandemic

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Washington on May 4, 2023. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

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.