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‘We are worried about the wide-ranging impact that all these decisions will have on America’s health security,’ the former CDC directors said about Secretary Kennedy’s shakeup at the Health and Human Services Department

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In a New York Times essay, nine officials said Kennedy’s leadership at HHS ‘should alarm every American’

Trump wants drugmakers to ‘justify the success’ of Operation Warp Speed following wave of CDC resignations and warnings from public health officials

Nine former leaders of the top US health body sounded the alarm Monday about the Trump administration's evisceration of the agency and warned that vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr is "endangering every American's health."

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is under intense fire after his dismissal of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez set off resignations among top public health leaders and renewed calls for his removal.

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immunizations chief Demetre Daskalakis said Sunday he resigned because politics has overrun science at the nation's top public-health agency, warning he "only see[s] harm coming" under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Ever since Robert F Kennedy (RFK) Jr was appointed United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been under pressure to abandon its traditional evidence-based approach to public health in America and across the world.

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.