On Wednesday, over 750 present and former workers members on the US Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS) urged Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to “cease spreading inaccurate well being data.” This follows a capturing earlier this month on the headquarters of the US Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC).
In a letter, former and present staffers expressed “grave concern for America’s well being and safety.” “The violent August eighth assault on CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta was not random,” the letter writers acknowledged. “The attacker fired lots of of rounds into buildings because the CDC workforce inside carried out its mission of serving the American folks. The assault got here amid rising distrust in public establishments, pushed by politicized rhetoric that has turned public well being professionals from trusted specialists into targets of villainization—and now, violence.”
“When the federal workforce will not be protected, America will not be protected,” the HHS staff highlighted. They claimed that “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is complicit in dismantling America’s public well being infrastructure and endangering the nation’s well being by repeatedly spreading inaccurate well being data.”
The letter writers expressed that “harmful and deceitful statements and actions have contributed to the harassment and violence skilled by CDC workers,” and urged RFK Jr. to cease spreading inaccurate well being data; to affirm CDC’s scientific integrity; and assure the protection of the HHS workforce.
