In a New York Times essay, former CDC chiefs point to Kennedy’s firing of thousands of health workers and the weakening of cancer programmes
Nine former leaders of the top US health body sounded the alarm on Monday about the Trump administration’s evisceration of the agency and warned that vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jnr is “endangering every American’s health”.
The removal triggered the resignation of at least four top officials and plunged the agency deeper into chaos.
What Kennedy has done to the CDC and the nation’s public health system – “culminating in his decision to fire Dr Susan Monarez as CDC director days ago – is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced”, the experts wrote.
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