Thiel Network''s O''Neill Consolidates CDC Leadership as Kennedy Purges Staff

Acting CDC Director Jim O'Neill, a former Thiel Capital managing director and Founders Fund partner, began issuing directives to restructure the CDC''s advisory committee system and disease surveillance protocols within 48 hours of taking office. RFK Jr. simultaneously moved to eliminate 12 of the CDC''s standing scientific advisory committees. Career epidemiologists warned that gutting advisory structures would impair outbreak response and vaccine safety monitoring.