Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams blasted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his "delayed and tepid response" to the fatal shooting that occurred at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Friday in Atlanta.

In an op-ed published Saturday by Stat, Adams wrote it was "clear" that the shooting was a "a dire reflection of ever-escalating threats public health workers face in a climate increasingly shaped by misinformation, politicization, and inflammatory rhetoric."

Last Friday afternoon, a shooter whom authorities have identified as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White shot at the Atlanta headquarters of the CDC, killing DeKalb County police officer David Rose. White's father reportedly told police his son had been fixated on the COVID-19 vaccine.

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