RFK JR IS RUNNING OUT OF CDC FRIENDS

 

BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| AMERICAN POLITICS

Sources: CNN and Fox

RFK JR. is facing more scrutiny after the firing of Susan Monarez, who, unbelievably, was hired only this past July to lead the organization. The Health and Human Services Secretary has faced irate criticism for closing some areas of the CDC.

And although RFK Jr. has a history of vaccine denying, he at least had his children vaccinated. Then more staffers started to resign in protest.

Top health experts described the loss of senior staffers as “reckless,” a “disaster,” and ruinous to evidence-based public health policy — leaving the country more vulnerable.

Let's not forget the mass layoffs at the organization, or the attack by a gunman at the agency's headquarters in ATL this month which killed a cop.

There has been cuts to the elite research universities, and huge reductions to the US-funded health programs around the world. Gone are the days of the CDC leading the world. 

via cnn:

“Ousting the first Senate-confirmed CDC director weeks into the start of her tenure makes absolutely no sense and underscores the destructive chaos at RFK Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services,” said Dr. Robert Steinbrook, health research group director at Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization.

“To make matters even worse, there are reports of additional resignations of critical high-ranking CDC staff,” Steinbrook said. “The CDC is being decapitated. This is an absolute disaster for public health.”

Dr. Tina Tan, the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, warned that politically motivated attacks on the country’s public health system must end.

“The mass resignations of CDC expert leaders present a clear and present danger to Americans of all ages and leave our nation extremely vulnerable to a wide range of public health threats from outbreaks to bioterror attacks,” Tan said. “As we near respiratory virus season, it is imperative that our country have expert public health leadership for effective surveillance, communications and responses.”

Tam added, “The administration’s current trajectory for destroying the public health system is reckless and cannot continue.”

Clearly, Monarez and RFK Jr. had no common line between them and one of them had to go.

But what will that mean for America's health and human services at the CDC?