Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who recently resigned from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, completely unloaded on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claiming there is “public evidence” of his intentions to “interfere with the science at CDC.”
Daskalakis resigned alongside fellow doctors and officials Deb Houry and Dan Jernigan on Thursday, citing changes to the agency’s vaccine advisory board and other vaccine policies.
That same day, Kennedy told reporters the agency has been “very troubled for a very long time,” calling their recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic “not science” and “misinformation.”
“I think that if the CDC is being characterized as troubled by Secretary Kennedy, I think we have to turn the mirror back to him because I think that the trouble is emanating mainly from him,” Daskalakis told CNN’s “The Source” host Kaitlan Collins Thursday.
Daskalakis went on to say Kennedy‘s “clear statement that experts should not be trusted really makes it seem unlikely that his mission for CDC is to be a bastion of scientific expertise.”
