Former CDC official on RFK JR Policies: “I only see the next harm”
A former official in the centers of disease control and prevention centers (CDC) is highlighted on health health and humanitarian services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Junior and his policies after his resignation last week.
Dr. Dimter Daskalakis, the former director of the fortification center at the Center for Disease Control and Respiratory Diseases, resigned last Wednesday after the shooting of the head of the White House Susan Monarerez. During an interview on Sunday on “this week” in ABC, Kennedy criticized and said that “he can only see the damage” as a result of his policies, noting that his leadership wants to “see a retreat from vaccination.”
“I mean, from my point of view as a doctor who led to the Hybronic oath, I only see the next harm,” Daslakis said. “I may be wrong. But … based on what I heard with the new members of the Consulting Committee for Evangelical Practices, or ACIP, they are really moving in an ideological direction where they want to see a retreat from vaccination. They want to see a retreat from our flexible vaccination.”
Daslakis Kennedy also criticized the childhood schedule for Covid-19, saying that the officials were directed that children with basic conditions were the ones who should be eligible for vaccination. “
“This is not what the data shows,” he said. “He is six months old to two years, their basic condition is youth. Fifty -three percent of these children who entered the hospital last season had no basic conditions. The data says that in this age group, you should be spacked with your child.”
Dascalakis also condemned the new leader of the Center for Disease Control, Jim O’Neil, a senior HHS official with profound relations with the Republican donor Peter Thil.
And he said on the authority of O’Neil: “Frankly, I really want to trust him, because I do not do.”
Daskalakis criticized O’Neill’s publication on the social platform X, accusing CDC of “processing healthy data to support political narration.”
“The stability of confidence in experts must tell you … that doubt by the CDC director, the new Chargé d’Affairs, must tell you that we have a big problem,” he said.
“If he runs a health organization, he needs experience from people who know health and know science,” he added. “It seems that he really does not trust his people. It will not be a good way.”
When he was asked about his departure from the Center for Disease Control, Dascalakis said he was concerned for several months about the agency’s future and what he left.
“Of course I am worried. I felt anxious months ago,” he said.
“I was ready to do this when I felt hit the line,” he added. “And I hit the line when I did not think that we would be able to present science in a way -free in ideology, and that the wall of protection between science and ideology had completely collapsed. The lack of a scientific leader in the center of diseases control means that we will not be able to obtain the necessary diplomacy and contact HHS to be able to implement right public health.”
Daslakis’s comments come after President Trump Monares launched, while Kennedy made many changes to the Center for Disease Control, including plans to limit access to the Covid-19 vaccine. Several officials of the Disease Control Center announced their resignation, including Daskalakis, shortly after the changes.
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