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Several former directors and former acting directors at the Disease Control and Prevention Center (CDC) on Monday in a joint New York Times Guest Essay in Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Condemned Kennedy Junior.
In essayNine officials of the Democratic and Republican administration accused Trump’s appointment of weakening the country’s public health system.
“Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. What has done for the public health system of CDC and our country in the last several months – Dr. Susan Monarez as a director of CDC, in his decision to set fire to CDC as director of CDC, contrary to being anything that we have seen in the agency, and our country has ever experienced,” he has written.
CDC director Susan Monarez refused to be removed as leaving other officials
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. (Chip Somodeville/Getty Images)
Monarez was removed as the head of the agency last week, less than a month after its confirmation. She allegedly refused to adopt new boundaries on the availability of some vaccines, including approval for Covid-19 shots.
Four other senior CDC officials resigned, pointing to the removal of more, as well as reasons for Kennedy’s vaccine policies. Additionally, hundreds of workers of the agency also went out of the CDC headquarters in Atlanta in support of their former colleagues.
Author of Times Guest Essay – William Foj, William Ropper, David Sachachar, Jeffrey Coplane, Richard Besar, Tom Freeden, Anne Shucht, Rochel P. Walnsky and Mandy. Cohen – Slammed Kennedy – said that he has fired thousands of federal health workers. More.”
About 600 CDC workers were abolished after clarifying the part of the Trump Administrator Reorganization Plan
Susan Monarez testified on June 25, 2025 during his June confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension. (Kayla Bartakowski/Getty Images)
He wrote, “Amidst the outbreak of the largest measles in the United States in a generation, he has focused on the unproven ‘remedies’ while reducing the vaccines,” he wrote. “He canceled investment in promising medical research that would leave us sick for future health emergency conditions. They replaced experts from federal health advisory committees with unqualified individuals who share their dangerous and unscientific ideas.”
He also destroyed the Secretary to eliminate American support of global vaccination programs and to justify the move with “flawed research” and “incorrect statements”. Additionally, he stated that he supported the federal law, which would lead to “millions of people with health insurance to lose their coverage” through Medicid.
The collection of former directors stated that, due to these tasks, rural Americans and disabled people will have less access to health care, low -income Americans will have less access to treatment, and children may lose access to “lifetime of vaccines”.
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Complex of Disease Control and Prevention Center in Atlanta on 25 June 2025. (Mike Stewart/AP Photo)
In his New York Times guest essay published on Saturday, Sen Berney Sanders, I-VT., Called Kennedy to resign after Monarez exit.
Sanders wrote, “Despite the heavy opposition to the medical community, Secretary Kennedy continued advocating his prolonged crusade and conspiracy principles against the vaccine, which have been repeatedly rejected by scientific experts.”
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