More than 1,000 past and present Department of Health and Human Services staffers called on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign in an open letter published Wednesday, saying his vaccine policies have endangered the lives of Americans.
“We swore an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution and to serve the American people,” reads the letter, published on the Save HHS website and signed by 1,040 health workers. “Our oath requires us to speak out when the Constitution is violated and the American people are put at risk.”
“Thus, we warn the President, Congress, and the Public that Secretary Kennedy’s actions are compromising the health of this nation, and we demand Secretary Kennedy’s resignation.”
The letter comes two days after former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials wrote in a New York Times op-ed that Kennedy’s leadership and “unacceptable” ousting of former CDC Director Susan Monarez was “unlike anything we had ever seen.”
Monarez, a trained microbiologist and immunologist, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in July. In a confirmation hearing a month prior, she said her top priority as head of the CDC would be restoring trust in the agency.
