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CDC Purge Brings Public Health to the Brink
Health Secretary Kennedy aims to streamline CDC by removing chronic disease programs and replacing vaccination panel members, amid criticism from former directors and staff resignations.
- In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Tuesday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should return to an infectious-disease focus and shift chronic disease programs to a new Administration for a Healthy America.
- Over the summer, Kennedy moved against CDC personnel by firing childhood vaccination panel members, installing known anti-vaccine activists, dismissing the 17-member vaccine advisory board, and attempting to discharge Susan Monarez, acting CDC Director.
- CDC staff and four top aides who resigned led a walkout at CDC headquarters in Atlanta last week, while nine former CDC directors including Anne Schuchat and Tom Frieden warned Kennedy's leadership is `unlike anything our country has ever experienced`.
- Public-Health experts point to the ongoing measles epidemic originating in Texas, which has killed three people this year, to highlight risks as children risk losing vaccine access and rural communities face reduced healthcare.
- Kennedy will testify before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, where he faces questions about his CDC decisions as Sen. Bill Cassidy urges postponing the ACIP meeting this month amid oversight calls.
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Portland Press HeraldCDC purge brings public health to the brink
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a lot of explaining to do.
Kennedy wants to limit CDC’s role to infectious diseases
A day after nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s actions at the agency are “unlike anything our country has ever experienced,” he pushed back in a Wall Street Journal editorial
RFK Jr. sets CDC priorities in op-ed after leadership shake-up
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should return its focus to tracking infectious diseases and pandemic response less than one week after the agency’s director was fired.
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