A day after Susan Monarez, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was fired by the White House after clashing with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he lashed out at the "priorities" of the agency.
"The CDC has problems," he said in an interview on Aug. 28 with Fox & Friends.
Kennedy, whose views on vaccines are at odds with the overwhelming majority of doctors, then went on rail against what the agency website lists as the 10 greatest advances in medicine, including vaccines.
"One of them is abortion. Another is fluoridation and another is vaccines," he said. "So we need to look at the priorities of the agency. If there's really a deeply, deeply embedded, I would say, malaise at the agency."
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