Hundreds of current and former workers for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have signed a letter asking its leader, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to resign.

Organizers of the letter say the number of signees totals more than 1,000 people, although some requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.

The move, they said, follows Kennedy’s failure to respond to an earlier letter in August — initially signed by more than 700 HHS workers which now numbers nearly 7,000. In that letter, the workers pleaded with Kennedy to protect them and to stop spreading misinformation about vaccines and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“The silence is deafening,” they said in a statement posted with the letter and released Wednesday.

Wednesday’s letter lists several ways t

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