O'Neill was an early supporter of Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again movement and publicly criticized the CDC on X under the handle @HHS_Jim. He has expressed strong libertarian views, including support for compensating organ donors to increase supply, arguing many spare kidneys go unused while patients die waiting. O'Neill is not a physician or scientist, unlike many past CDC directors; Monarez holds a microbiology doctorate. Dr. Deb Houry resigned citing concerns that leadership lacked necessary outbreak expertise. Two other top CDC leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis and Dr. Dan Jernigan, also resigned, citing ethical objections to agency direction and influence from anti-science activists.
Eleven people every day die while waiting for a kidney that could save their life. And there are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused.
You can be a great administrator, but you do need to at least have a knowledge of how you'd handle an outbreak or an emerging pathogen,
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