Epidemiologist Dr. Don Weiss, the director of surveillance for the New York City Health Department’s Bureau of Communicable Disease, is being removed from his post after criticizing the city's response to a worsening monkeypox outbreak.
. Weiss said in the story that the department acted irresponsibly by not advising people at high risk for the disease — specifically, men who have sex with men — to temporarily reduce their number of sexual partners.posted on his website, he can be heard asking the person notifying him of his reassignment whether he can appeal the decision.
On his website, Weiss added, “In the midst of a worsening monkeypox pandemic, overlapping with continued waves of COVID-19 ... the NYC Department of Health decided to transfer its most senior communicable disease epidemiologist out of the program where he has worked for 22 years.” In response to questions about why Weiss was transferred, city health department spokesperson Michael Lanza said, “We don’t publicly discuss personnel matters. Agencies make various personnel changes based on their operational needs.”article, Weiss was not the only one at the department who disagreed with the city’s public health advice on monkeypox — particularly around how to reduce risk during sexual activity.
The guidance goes on to say, however, “Having sex or other intimate contact with multiple or anonymous people … increases your risk of exposures.” Weiss wrote an email to a colleague in June saying that senior health officials seemed “paralyzed by fear of stigmatizing this disease,” according to the
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