The vaccine and public health debate explained
Atlanta, Georgia, Disease Control and Prevention Center in the United States (CDC) The exterior of the main campus, 27 August 2025.
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Disease control and prevention centers are facing a leadership turmoil – and at the center of the shock, the agency is concerned about the approach of vaccines and US public health.
On Thursday, the White House said that President Donald Trump fired CDC Director Susan Monarez after he refused to resign. Lawyers for Monarez said that “to protect the public” “to serve a political agenda”.
Meanwhile, the other best health official in the CDC announced that they left the agency on Wednesday. This is Demetre Daskalakis, Director of National Independence and Respiratory Diseases, It does not serve anymore Due to “arming of public health”.
The loss of these respectable leaders and the loss of efforts to overthrow Monarez, Secretary General of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – A leading vaccine skeptical CANCELLATION WORKS MRNA shooting technology and hire similar -minded ones Images.
Kennedy has a long history of misleading and wrong statements about the safety of vaccine shooting, but in the current role, it uses an enormous force on the agencies regulating vaccines and determines both who can take them and which insurance plans should be included.
General Manager of the American Public Health Association. Georges Benjamin added that the leadership revision in the CDC represents Kennedy’s “unsuccessful leadership and reckless wrong management” and added “a clear eye for public health based on science and evidence.”
The agency is also hanging from the August 8 attack by an armed man at the headquarters in Atlanta.
Some health policy experts, leadership output, the public’s disease epidemics and if necessary to guide the state and local health departments, an agency responsible for the confidence in an agency, he said.
“This should be seen above a path in which the CDC is weakened and perhaps irreversible weakened,” Georgetown University Professor of Public Health Law, Professor of Public Health Law. He said.
“During all these years, CDC is independent and jewel in the crown of American science.
High -level official emphasis vaccine concerns
Daskalakis was among the authorities who clearly emphasized concerns about the views held by Kennedy and his staff, and that he challenged his ability to continue his role in the agency.
“I can’t serve in an environment that does not reflect CDC as a tool to produce policies and materials designed to damage the health of the people,” CDC, which does not reflect scientific reality and designed to harm the health of the people, “Daskalakis said in a letter. He said.
The CDC’s latest changes in the adult and child vaccination program “threatened the lives of youngest Americans and pregnant people,” he said.
In May, Kennedy said CDC has removed Covid vaccines from the recommended list of shots for healthy pregnant women and children. One The updated guidance, which was updated days later, said “shots can be given” to these groups.
Daskalakis said that data analyzes that support the change were “HHS and other leaderships have never been shared with CDC despite my respectful demands.” In addition, HHS said that Kennedy distributed the “Frequently Asked Questions” document written to support Kennedy’s decision without input from CDC subject experts, and referred to the studies that do not support the results attributed to these writers “.
On Wednesday, the Food and Pharmaceutical Administration approved the latest Covid vaccines for those who have a higher risk of serious disease, and since I started my pande, he pointed to another slipping around these shots.
Covid vaccine manufacturers’ shares dived on Thursday. Modernna While the stock falls more than 3% Pfizer It fell around 2 %.
These companies and other drug producers are preparing for changes in vaccine and public health policy, as Trump calls Kennedy as the choice of leading HHS in November. The CDC’s leadership tremor only contributes to the uncertainty in the pharmaceutical industry, which is struggling with Trump’s drug pricing policies.
In January, Kennedy tried to remove him from his previous views on the Senate approval hearings and claimed that he was not “anti -vaccine” and would not make it difficult or encouraged to “make routine shots for measles and children’s paralysis”.
However, some of Kennedy’s latest efforts seem to reflect their critical views in terms of vaccine. For example, Kennedy in August controversial MRNA vaccines – technology used in Covid shootings – is ineffective and is defended for the development of other jabs using other “safer” platforms.
Years of research supports the effectiveness of MRNA Covid vaccines, and technology has now approved for use in shots against respiratory syncital virus.
Threat to public health
As changes progress in the CDC, concerns about the threat of public health and protocol are increasing.
Daskalakis hit the means of transmitting major policy changes of HHS and other CDC leadership. For example, Kennedy, Daskalakis, CDC Vaccine Consultants Panel-Eyevar Consultants Panel-and “Instead of direct communication with these valuable experts,” an X Post and OP-ED consultancy committee fired the entire firing.
Measles, bird influenza and respiratory virus approach to the season, such as the opportunity to inform Kennedy’yi believed that he believes he said. However, Daskalakis entered the new administration for seven months, and no CDC subject from the center briefed Kennedy.
He said, “I’m not sure who the secretary listened to, but it’s definitely not for us.” “Foreign organizations seem to be the sources used by HHS on gold standard science by CDC and other respected sources.”
On Wednesday, Dr. Debra Houry, likewise, said that senior leaders were “never briefing” to any of the problems faced by the agency.
“CDC scientists are first -class and perfect,” he said in an interview with MSNBC. “In fact, what we would prefer was to have more interaction with the secretary.”
“Over the last few months, when it comes to science and data -oriented decisions, things in the CDC are really difficult,” he added.
As experts have left the CDC for a long time, the threat of infectious diseases increases. While measles marking cases again in the USA, bird flu is spreading to cattle. The first human case of the parasites in the country “New World Screw Wolf” was identified.
Benjamin from the American Public Health Association said that separations can “make our public health less confident”.
Susan Monarez, Director of Disease Control and Prevention Centers of US President Donald Trump, witnessed Washington, DC, DC, USA, USA, Capitol Hill on June 25, 2025 before the Sensate Health, Training, Workers’ and Pension Committee hearing.
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He also raised concerns about the ability of leadership to detect and respond to the spread of an infectious disease that emerged in an infectious disease, because CDC is “glue” that brings together individual doctors and states and local health departments.
Benjamin said, “I am worried that we will not know in time and that we will chase this disease much longer than us.” He said.
Benjamin said that Trump administration would find someone who has a relevant experience to replace Monarez “extremely competent”.
“Obviously, everything has tremendous effects for the health and prosperity of the people and the enormous effects around our nation’s financing.” He said. “Prevention and healthy life make us money and public health is the best purchase.”
