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US health workers implore RFK Jr to ‘stop spreading inaccurate’ information

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr in Washington, DC, US, in May 2025 [File: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP]

Hundreds of federal health employees have written to United States Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, imploring him to “stop spreading inaccurate health information”, weeks after a gunman fired hundreds of bullets into the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.

Signatories to the letter on Wednesday, including hundreds of current HHS staff, accused Kennedy of “sowing public mistrust by questioning the integrity and morality of CDC’s workforce”, including by calling the public health agency a “cesspool of corruption”, during his 2024 failed presidential election campaign.

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