In an interesting turn of events, four other high-level officials have allegedly quit since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired th...
In an interesting turn of events, four other high-level officials have allegedly quit since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
So far, letters from three of the officials have been made public. In them, they warn that RFK Jr.'s leadership has hurt the agency's goal by spreading false information about vaccines and other issues.
Head of the Health Service, Dr. Debra Houry; Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who runs the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Dr. Daniel Jernigan, who runs the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and Dr. Jennifer Layden, who runs the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, are all leaving their jobs.
"For the sake of the country and the world, the CDC's science should never be silenced or changed because of politics." "Vaccines save lives--this is a scientific fact that can't be argued with," Houry wrote in an email to her coworkers. She also said, "The overstating of risks and the rise of misinformation have cost lives." As examples, she pointed to the rise in measles and the shooting at the CDC's Atlanta offices on August 8.
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Being named after my grandfather, who fought fascists in Greece and died for it, I believe in you. In his resignation statement, which he shared on X, Daskalakis said, "I'm leaving to honor him and his work." "I can't work in a place that uses the CDC to make policies and materials that don't follow scientific facts and are meant to hurt people's health instead of helping it." He talked about changes to the schedule for children and people getting vaccines and the administration's "efforts to erase transgender populations" as examples of other things the agency had done.
"Eugenics is a big part of the rhetoric that is being made, and it comes from a history that good medicine and science should continue to avoid."
Jernigan also told her coworkers, "Given how things are going in the Department right now, I think it's best for me to resign."
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