From the comments on the second article above, unverified:
Two longtime and very senior staff, Dan Jernigan (Director of the National Center for Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases—think COVID and Ebola) and Deb Houry ( CDC Chief Medical Officer) just quit in protest.
Update: also resigned are Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and Jennifer Layden, director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology.