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Former CDC official on RFK Jr. policies: 'I only see harm coming'

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31.08.2025

A former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official is sounding the alarm about Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his policies after resigning from his post last week.

Former Director of the CDC's Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, resigned last Wednesday following the White House's firing of the agency’s director, Susan Monarez. During a Sunday interview on ABC's "This Week," he slammed Kennedy and said he can "only see harm coming" as a result of his policies, noting that his leadership wants "to see the undoing of vaccination."

"I mean, from my vantage point as a doctor who’s taken the Hippocratic oath, I only see harm coming," Daskalakis said. "I may be wrong. But...based on what I've heard with the new members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, or ACIP, they’re........

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