Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the former head of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Thursday said Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has not been briefed by agency experts on measles, COVID-19 and the flu.

“No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics,” Daskalakis told Kaitlan Collins during a Thursday evening appearance on CNN’s “The Source.”

“Perhaps he has alternate experts that he may trust more than the experts at CDC that the rest of the world regards as the best scientists in the areas,” he added.

The Hill has contacted HHS for comment.

Daskalakis resigned from his post on Wednesday following the Trump administration’s dismissal of CDC Director Susan

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