by A letter published on Wednesday from more than 1,000 earlier and current workers of the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has called for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The hard-beating letter, which is aimed at the congress members, accuses Kennedy for turbulence in the centers for the control and prevention and prevention of diseases (CDC), including the dismissal of the boss of the agency and the replacement of a Donald Trump-Loyalist without a medical or scientific background.
It was two days after nine former CDC officers had written in a guest attachment in the New York Times that Kennedy’s leadership and the arrangement of the CDC director Susan Monarez months after he had appointed them, was “unacceptable” and “in contrast to everything we have ever seen”.
The letter on Wednesday from a group called himself saved HHS Kennedy for “the health of the nation through the distribution of inaccurate health information”.
It quotes the resignation of other leading health officers, including Demetre Daskalaki, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases of CDC. Daniel Jernigan, the director of the agency for aspiring and zoonotic infectious diseases; and Debra Houry, his Chief Medical Officer.
It also offers sharp criticism of Kennedy’s installation of “political ideologues that represent as scientific experts” in leading roles, including an important vaccine advisory committee. Several members have advertised discredited theories, such as the long Disprovenic connection between vaccines and autism.
At the beginning of this week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were severely restricted, which were able to receive COVID 19 vaccines.
“Our oath requires us to comment when the constitution is violated and the American people are at risk,” said the letter, which was signed by six partner organizations in the medical field.
“We warn the president, the congress and the public that the measures by secretary Kennedy affect the health of this nation, and we call for secretary secretary.”
It demands Trump to appoint a new Minister of Health, “whose qualifications and experience ensure that health policy is informed by experts by experts”.
Trump expressed his displeasure this week about the chaos that devoured the CDC and recognized in a social media post that the agency was “torn apart” by the vaccines. However, he claimed that drug manufacturers were to blame for the fact that he has supposedly not publicly unveiled the success or failure of Covid vaccines.
The Trump administration also acted with Kennedy about Monarez ‘dismissal, which prompted non -partisan pushback and a strike of dozens of CDC employees last month. Monarez, a long -time government expert for infectious diseases, was confirmed in July but released because “she does not match the agenda of the President,” says a statement by the White House.
The 1,040 former and current HHS employees who were signed on Wednesday said they wrote again because Kennedy ignored their former communication. An explanation given by HHS accused the group “an attempt to politicize a tragedy” by playing a role in the Rhetoric of Kennedy’s vaccine in an attack on the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on August 8, where a policeman was killed.
In its new letter, the group said that the HHS workforce is non-partisan and that the scientific policies developed under Republican and democratic administrations “.
It was said: “We believe that health policy should be based on strong, evidence-based principles than on partisan politics. However, under the leadership of secretary Kennedy, the HHS guidelines are at risk of health of all Americans regardless of their politics.”
The letter was signed “in our personal skills, in our personal time and without the use of government devices”. It was said that “countless others” all over HHS shared their concerns, “however, decided not to surrender of the reasonable fear of retaliation and threats to personal security”.
Up to 30 workers of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) were brought on vacation last week after they publicly signed a contradiction about Trump’s demolition by the agency and fear that this would lead to a disaster like hurricane Katrina in 2005.
