The former official said the RFK junior was never briefed by CDC experts.
On Thursday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Health, Covid -1 and Flu were not briefed by agency experts at Flu, said Thursday that the former head of the National Center for Immunization and respiratory disease.
Catlan Collins told Catlan Collins on Thursday evening at CNN’s “The Source”, “No one in my center has ever briefed him about these issues.”
He added, “He probably has alternative experts that he can believe more than CDC experts that the rest of the world respects the best scientists in the region,” he added.
Hill contacted HHS to comment.
After the Trump administration’s CDC director Susan Monarez dismissed, Dasakalakis resigned from his position on Wednesday, called the White House that “not aligned” with the president’s agenda.
He canceled the new agency policy, along with several other officers, saying that the decision -making was based on a political agenda instead of scientific evidence.
Former CDC official said that Kennedy was getting information from “somewhere”, but he did not come to CDC experts for various infectious diseases, despite the outbreak of a recent attack, which was infected with hundreds of across the country.
“He is getting information from somewhere, but that information is not coming from CDC experts who are really experts in the region in the region. […] And he is not taking us a number of offers to shorten him on these very important things, “Dasakalakis said.
His demands were included in his resignation letter, so he wrote: “We are in the new administration for seven months, and never notified the Secretary of the CDC subject in my center. I am not sure who is listening to the secretary, but it is certainly not to us.”
Kennedy was widely known as a vaccine critic before hearing his Senate confirmation, focusing on the controversy surrounding his fitness to serve a division dedicated to ensure public health.
In recent months, the Secretary has dismissed the members of a dedicated committee to provide recommendations to improve permanent immunization of CDC officials and replace those who promote anti -vaccine speeches.
