Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention penned an opinion piece in the New York Times to slam Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday.
Former directors Dr. William Foege, Dr. William Roper, Dr. David Satcher, Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, Dr. Tom Frieden, Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Many Cohen, along with former acting directors Dr. Richard Besser and Dr. Anne Schuchat, wrote the op-ed.
“What the health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has done to the CDC and to our nation’s public health system over the past several months — culminating in his decision to fire Dr. Susan Monarez as CDC director days ago — is unlike anything we had ever seen at the agency and unlike anything our country had ever experienced,” the form