Directors who quit US health agency warn it is 'destroying' protections
The Peninsula
Washington: Senior experts who recently resigned in protest from the top US public health agency denounced Sunday growing politicization of the organi...
Washington: Senior experts who recently resigned in protest from the top US public health agency denounced Sunday growing politicization of the organization, warning of a breakdown in the "firewall" between science and ideology.
US President Donald Trump plunged American health policy and scientific rigor deeper into crisis this past week when he fired the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Monarez, after less than one month on the job.
Monarez had clashed with vaccine skeptic Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr over his vaccine policy overhaul. Her ouster triggered the departure of five other senior CDC officials, including Demetre Daskalakis as director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
"I've been worried for months," Daskalakis told the ABC News Sunday show "This Week, speaking of the impact the gutting of the historically independent CDC agency will have on public health.
"The firewall between science and ideology has completely broken down," he said.
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