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Several former directors and former acting directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) condemn the Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. Monday in a joint guest paper for The New York Times.
In the paperNine officials in the Democratic and Republican administration accused Trump’s appointment of weakening the country’s public health system.
“Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Dr. Susan Monarez Like the CDC director a few days ago, unlike anything we have seen at the institution, it is unlike anything our country has experienced. ” they wrote.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Monarez was removed from office as head of the agency less than a month after confirmation last week. she It is reportedly rejected Kennedy’s direction has taken new restrictions on the availability of certain vaccines, including approval for Covid-19 shootings.
Four other CDC officials resigned, pointing out that Monares’ removal and Kennedy’s vaccine policy were the reasons for his withdrawal. In addition, hundreds of workers at the agency left the CDC headquarters last month to support their former colleagues.
Authors of the Times guest papers – William Fauci, William Roper, David Sachch, Jeffrey Copeland, Richard Bessell, Tom Frieden, Anne Schacher, Rochelle Vollensky and Mandy Warrensky and Mandy K. More.”
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Susan Monarez testified at a confirmation hearing in June before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on June 25, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
“In the largest measles outbreak in a generation, he focused on unproven “treatment” while downplaying the vaccine,” they wrote. “He canceled investment in promising medical research, which will prepare us for future health emergencies. He replaced the federal health advisory committee experts with unqualified individuals who have dangerous and unscientific views.”
They also slammed the secretary to end our support for the global vaccination program and justified the move with “flawed research” and “inaccurate statements.” Additionally, they said he supports federal legislation that would “pass Medicaid to cause millions of people with health insurance to lose coverage.”
The former director’s collection said that due to these actions, Americans and disabled people in rural America have fewer access to health care, low-income Americans will have fewer access to treatment, and children may not have access to a “life-saving vaccine.”
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June 25, 2025, Atlanta Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Campus. (Mike Stewart/AP Photo)
In his own New York Times, the guest paper was published Saturday, Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT. Calls on Kennedy to resign After Monares quit.
“Despite overwhelming opposition from the medical community, Secretary Kennedy has been a long-standing crusade for vaccines and advocacy for conspiracy theories that have been repeatedly rejected by scientific experts,” Sanders wrote.
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