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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

CDC officials resign en masse over RFK Jr’s policies they warn will lead to deaths of children and vulnerable adults

A flurry of resignations at the nation’s largest public health agency has alarmed health officials across the country who fear that Donald Trump’s administration and its Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering millions of lives by politicizing science and dismantling institutions that save lives.

Four top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly left their positions Wednesday after the agency’s director, Susan Monarez, was forced out of the job.

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