More than 750 current and former employees from HHS agencies, including CDC and NIH, say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spreads inaccurate health information that endangers federal employees and the public. On 8 August a gunman fired nearly 500 bullets at the CDC Atlanta headquarters, shattering 150 windows and killing police officer David Rose; the attacker believed the Covid-19 vaccine caused his depression. Employees and union leaders say leadership peddling falsehoods erodes public trust and creates conditions for violence against health agencies and staff. Experts call Kennedy an existential threat to public health and demand accountability for officials who spread dangerous misinformation.
The man, who was killed on the scene, believed the Covid-19 vaccine caused his depression. Kennedy, secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has been complicit in dismantling America's public health infrastructure and endangering the nation's health by repeatedly spreading inaccurate health information, said the letter, which was signed by more than 750 current and former employees from HHS agencies, including the CDC and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and addressed to Kennedy and the US Congress.
When your own leadership peddles falsehoods, it doesn't just erode the public trust, it creates the conditions for the kind of violence that we saw on Friday, Yolanda Jacobs, president of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) local 2883 and a CDC employee, told reporters last week. This was a targeted attack. It was a targeted act of violence against not just CDC, but CDC's employees.
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