HHS Secretary Kennedy continues to endanger the nation’s health by:

• Facilitating the firing of the Senate-confirmed CDC director, Dr. Susan Monarez. 

• Causing the resignations of Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Dr. Daniel Jernigan, the director of CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and Dr Debra Houry, CDC’s chief medical officer and former director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

• Appointing political ideologues who pose as scientific experts and manipulate data to fit predetermined conclusions, such as:

• Retsef Levi, who has opposed mRNA vaccines, is the lead of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) COVID-19 work group.

• Robert Malone, ACIP member, has made multiple inaccurate claims regarding COVID-19 and measles. 

• David Geier, a supporter of debunked theories linking vaccines to autism, is to lead an HHS investigation on vaccines and autism. 

• Refusing to be briefed by well-regarded CDC experts on vaccine-preventable diseases. 

• Disregarding the President’s Executive Order, “Restoring Gold Standard Science in America”, which has called for transparent science, subject to unbiased peer-review, collaborative and interdisciplinary, and free from conflict of interest. 

• Rescinding the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines without providing the data or methods used to reach such a decision.

• Disparaging the American Academy of Pediatrics for recommending the COVID-19 vaccine in children.

• Making misleading claims about physician and hospital liability for following evidence-based vaccine guidance that he opposes. 

• Disregarding his HHS workforce with his ongoing verbal attacks by stating, “Trusting experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy.”