"Americans across the political spectrum are aligned on at least one belief, albeit for different reasons: The CDC is a mess. In a poll conducted this summer by The Washington Post and KFF, a nonpartisan health-policy organization, Democrats and Republicans alike expressed low confidence that the agency could be trusted to make independent decisions based on scientific fact. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the head of Health and Human Services, has described the CDC as dysfunctional and politicized;"
"Today, Monarez testified before a Senate committee that Kennedy fired her after less than a month in her role because she refused to accept his vaccine policy. According to Monarez, Kennedy demanded "blanket approval" of all recommendations made by the agency's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which Kennedy dismantled in June and has since remade in his own anti-vaccine image."
Americans across the political spectrum express low confidence in the CDC's ability to make independent, science-based decisions, according to a Washington Post and KFF poll. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as head of Health and Human Services, described the CDC as dysfunctional and politicized. A former CDC director said he disparaged agency workers as child murderers. Public-health experts question the agency's credibility under Kennedy; a leading infectious-disease researcher said, "You can't trust anything that comes out of the CDC." Monarez testified that Kennedy fired her after less than a month for refusing his vaccine policy and for not granting "blanket approval" to Advisory Committee recommendations. Kennedy dismantled and remade the committee with anti-vaccine influence. Officials plan to discuss multiple vaccines, and a report said some officials intend to use unverified vaccine-injury reports to link COVID shots to child deaths. HHS and the CDC did not respond to requests for comment.
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