Four senior officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently announced their resignation, especially quoted that they were described as a growing political interference in the scientific work of institutions on vaccines.
Two of them are DEMETRE, CDC’s top science and medical officer who led the National Center for Debra Hour, CDC’s Chief Science and Medical Officer, Debra Hour and National Immunization and Respiratory Disease Daskalakis resigned a few hours after the White House’s launch of CDC Director Susan Monarez.
Monarez, confirmed by the Senate at the end of July, was removed by term for less than a month. Kush Desai, a White House spokesman, said Mores said, “It was not consistent with the president’s agenda that made the United States back.” Monarez’s lawyers insisted that dismissal was illegal and claimed that only the president could remove the director.
On August 28, Jim O’Neill, Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare, was selected as the CDC Director, and the White House officials confirmed the CBS News and KFF Health News. HHS of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed O’Neill as an acting CDC without starting Monarez in an internal email sent to CDC staff that evening.
Kennedy told CDC employees, “Trump and I are striving to cooperate with you to restore trust, transparency and reliability of CDC by facing common sense vision for CDC.
Houry and Daskalakis said they became increasingly unstable about how vaccine policy was being handled. Both pointed out the preparation of the Advisory Committee of the Vaccination Practice Council, which recommends vaccine schedules.
Hourdy said, “Some decisions have been made before data or science. We are scientists, it was related to us.”
Daskalakis said, “There is a concern that there is a fear that there will be an attempt to release a vaccine that has already made a clear recommendation for science.” And that’s what I think of the playbook. “
Both officials cited the case of changing or withdrawal of evidence. The CDC analysis of the vaccerosal, a vaccerosal, was simply posted before it fell in the direction of the HHS. Hourry said, “If there is something that does not fit the recommendation, the information will be stopped and the public cannot see openness and transparency.
The two also criticized them that they described the lack of direct communication between CDC scientists and HHS leadership. Daskalakis said his team had never been invited to Kennedy on the topic from measles to covid-19.
When Kennedy asked about the demand for “radical transparency,” Houry and Daskalakis explained that it learned about changes in the Covid vaccine schedule for children through social media, not through internal channels.
Daskalakis said, “The radical transparency was expressed by Twitter posts, which I found that Dr. Hour and I found out that the secretary mandated the change in Kobid’s children’s vaccine schedule,“ What is the background of that decision? And we have been rejected to access the information. So I don’t think it is fundamentally transparent.
CBS NEWS and KFF Health News approached HHS and suggested that Daskalakis raised the charges, but did not listen immediately.
The two officials said that when they resigned, there were no jobs. Hourry explained this decision as an effort to increase the alarm on the direction of the institution.
“To us, this was actually a bat signal,” he said. “We were the chief scientist and career leader of CDC. We thought it was time to stand together and try to do what we can do to increase our country’s warning.”
Daskalakis said that if it remained in the CDC under the current conditions, it would have been called the “inorganization” of public health.
“Safety has already been compromised. … We are already flying in the United States. If we have continued, we will be conspired and we will promote the ability to actively harm people in blind people.”
It emphasized the seriousness of the moment by pointing out that time left without a backup plan.
Hourry said, “Leaving without a job showed how the situation was terrible.
Daskalakis said his decision was formed by his medical oath.
“As a doctor, I have a hippoclaterer oath. First, do not harm children and adults in a way that can harm children and adults.
Both expressed concern about personal safety in the current climate.
Daskalakis said, “The environment we live in … The wrong information, especially some people, make us worry about us in the field of public health from those who are considered health authorities.” I am worried, but that is part of our work. Even when we are outside the CDC, we are brave and keep talking about the truth. “
Resignation was a few weeks after the shooting incident outside the CDC’s Atlanta headquarters, the law enforcement agency was related to the incorrect information.
Hourry said the White House’s response to the shooting was muted. Kennedy traveled to this site, but later interviewed experts’ distrust. “It was after the attack. It’s based on the incorrect information of Kovid, so it’s time for us to build trust.”
Daskalakis later depicted the mass shooting case as a public health crisis, but he believed that the minister should deal with wrong information as a root cause. For the reason of the CDC shooting case, “wrong information about the coved vaccine documented by the Georgian Investigation Bureau.” “The secretary is actually a good idea to solve the core issues that actually lead to the shooting.”
He also mentioned that CDC’s firearms violence prevention programs have dropped sharply. “We talk about violence due to public health problems. It is something we can do to prevent it. Unfortunately, most of the programs are terminated.”
Disposal and resignation demanded a director. Vermont’s Senator of Vermont demanded a double -party investigation, and Senator Patty Murray in Washington called for the removal of Kennedy, and Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy was a HHS secretary to confirm the appointment of Kennedy. Voted.
The event comes out as the FDA narrows the qualifications for the updated Covid vaccine, narrowing the qualifications to those with risk factors for the elderly and serious covid.
