A letter signed by hundreds of current and former HHS employees addressed to Health and Human Services leadership and Congress accuses Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of undermining the CDC by questioning staff integrity, promoting false claims about COVID vaccine safety and effectiveness, and changing vaccine policy for ideological reasons. The signatories say those actions contributed to harassment and violence against CDC personnel and helped create conditions linked to an August 8 attack on the CDC's Atlanta campus. A gunman fired more than 500 rounds across six buildings, prompting employees to barricade and hide; a responding officer, David Rose, was killed and the shooter killed himself. Authorities say the shooter was motivated by discontent with COVID vaccines and believed he had been harmed by vaccination. Former CDC official Dr. Fiona Havers called for greater recognition of the event's scale and increased support for public health workers and infrastructure.
A letter signed by hundreds of current and former HHS employees, addressed to Kennedy and members of Congress, says Kennedy is "complicit in dismantling America's public health infrastructure and endangering the nation's health" by questioning the integrity of the CDC's workforce, making false claims that COVID vaccines are not safe or effective, changing vaccine policy based on ideology rather than science, and contributing to "harassment and violence experienced by the CDC staff."
To the signatories, these factors contributed to an attack on CDC on August 8, when a gunman stood on a street corner in Atlanta and fired more than 500 rounds onto the agency's main campus. Authorities have said that the shooting was motivated by the gunman's "discontent" with COVID vaccines, based on written documents found in his home. He thought he had been injured by the vaccine and believed it was harming others, according to interviews with family members by Atlanta News First.
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