Former CDC Officials Say Americans Should Be Alarmed By What RFK Jr. Has Done To Health System
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The agency has been in turmoil following the White House's decision to terminate Dr. Susan Monarez as CDC director.
A group of former leaders of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents blasted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his latest actions targeting the agency, declaring that Americans deserve a health secretary who “supports science and has their back.”
In a New York Times opinion piece titled “We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health” published Monday, nine former officials, who served as directors or acting directors of the agency, warned that the situation facing the CDC is unprecedented.
What Kennedy “has done to the C.D.C. and to our nation’s public health system over the past several months — culminating in his decision to fire Dr. Susan Monarez as C.D.C. director days ago — is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced,” they write.
The authors of the piece include William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle Walensky and Mandy Cohen.
The Trump administration terminated Monarez last week, less than a month since she took up the position, after she refused to resign. Her lawyers said she was targeted for refusing to “rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts.” At least four other CDC officials also left the agency last week.
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