Dr. Demetre Daskalakis resigned from the CDC, warning that the agency has been damaged beyond repair and may be past the point of no return. He resigned shortly after CDC director Susan Monarez was ousted weeks after being sworn in. Daskalakis and two other department directors were escorted out of the Atlanta headquarters, and hundreds of employees and supporters greeted them with flowers, applause, and tears. He cited politicization of science by President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including dismantling vaccine policy, erasure of LGBTQ+ data, and undermining public health functions.
"We may be past the point of no return,"
"I expected to have a small group. Instead, a roaring crowd lined Clifton Road,"
"That's my experience of public health. It's people who really, really care. And so having them dehumanized by certain factions, including, I think, the secretary, made it all the more important to remind them of their humanity."
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