""I find that the views [Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough," he wrote in a resignation letter he shared publicly on social media. He said he was leaving because the CDC, the once-premier public health agency tasked with protecting the health of people in the U.S., had been transformed into a political instrument, with its scientific mission subverted, vulnerable populations erased, and evidence distorted. The agency, he wrote, had submitted to "radical non-transparency" and "unskilled manipulation of data.""
""What is happening at the CDC is part of the second Trump administration's attack on science. The administration has cut billions of dollars from cancer research, vaccine research, and other breakthroughs the medical community had been working on for decades. Now, on the outside, Daskalakis and others worry about those still inside. "I feel bad for my people who are inside the CDC," Daskalakis says. "The CDC is now a weapon. That is why I left. The weaponization of public health is happening, and I am not crying wolf.""
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis resigned as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, citing fundamental disagreements with Health and Human Services leadership. He asserted that the CDC has been turned into a political instrument, with its scientific mission subverted, vulnerable populations erased, and evidence distorted, and described institutional submission to "radical non-transparency" and "unskilled manipulation of data." The administration has cut billions from cancer and vaccine research and other biomedical breakthroughs. Daskalakis warned of the weaponization of public health, expressed concern for CDC staff still inside the agency, and highlighted threats to long-term public-health protections.
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