Public health and access to life saving vaccines on the line in a high -risk leadership battle in the centers of control and prevention of diseases.
Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior to pay CDC outlet Suzan Monares It is more than just an administrative re -administrative. Public health leaders say the sidewalk represents a major attack by Kennedy to control the agency and impose an agenda of anxiety, which will have profound effects on the lives of all Americans.
Kennedy wants to see Alviser and the hadith Messenger RNA on the basis Covid-19 vaccines that were withdrawn from the market, according to two people who are aware of the planning that asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak to the press. Some public health leaders say he also puts his attention to restricting or stopping access to some vaccinations in children.
His actions have already reduced federal assistance to the states, creating the possibility of increasing the outbreak of infectious diseases and diseases transmitted by food. Some public health leaders say they expect Kennedy to use the Center for Disease Control to spread health information that is not based on science.
“It’s a crazy season,” he said Richard is betterActing CDC director during the Obama administration. “People want information that they can trust to make critical decisions about their health. So far, we have been able to say to the center of diseases control. Unfortunately, we can no longer do this anymore.”
HHS spokeswoman Emily Helerad has opposed criticism.
“Minister Kennedy is still firmly committed to providing President Trump’s promise to make America healthy again, and to dismantle the current failed situation that fueled the epidemic of the chronic disease at the country level and the generally eroded confidence in our public health institutions,” Heilard said in a statement.
White House spokesman Kush Disai said that Kennedy, food and drug commissioner Marti Macari reported that Kofid’s footage would remain available to the Americans who need and want them.
“The Trump administration is restoring normative golden science as the only guideline to make health decisions,” Desai said in an email. “Only the fake news that can ignore these facts to continue to pay the democratic and hysterical conversation points.”
Behind the overthrow
The stopping began last week, when Kennedy sought fire at Monares, a microbiologist who was just confirmed by the Senate in July. she Release This position said, and her lawyers said that Kennedy sought to expel her because she would not shoot at senior employees or follow non -scientific directives. Four senior profession officials At the Center for Disease Control, he resigned on August 27 to protest.
Professional employees at the Disease Control Center and some public health groups hope that President Donald Trump would intervene and put the brakes on Kennedy. Instead, the White House supported Kennedy, saying Monares launched.
On September 1, Trump called for pharmaceutical companies that Covid vaccines operate, on another sign that he has not been appointed to defend the shots.
“I hope the process of warp is” great “as many say. If not, we all want to know that, and why ???” Trump said on Social truth.
The Warp Speed operation was the initiative that Trump himself announced in 2020 to accelerate the development of Covid vaccines, including Pfizer and Moderna. The vaccines have proven safe and effective in multiple clinical trials; A study published in the Jama Health Forum Save about 2.5 million life All over the world.
The employees of the Center for Disease Control is concerned that the next director of the agency will not fight for science, according to an employee who asked not to be recognized for fear of professional revenge.
Public health defenders say Trump’s support for extending Monares was a flat moment indicating that there was no checks on Kennedy and his agenda. Senior Democrats Congress, like the leader of the minority in the Senate Kennedy. He also called on hundreds of HHS Congress to intervene, saying Kennedy The science threatens And general health. It is scheduled to be Certificate September 4 In front of the Senate Finance Committee.
Kennedy said in a letter to the employees of the Disease Control Center that his focus on strengthening the agency’s reputation and leadership. The Atlanta -based agency was already suffering after the Trump administration prompted thousands of its employees and a gunmen said that the Kofid vaccine caused him health problems that launched hundreds of rounds on its campus last month, killing a police officer.
Kennedy wrote: “The center of diseases control over the world must be pioneer in the world in preventing infectious diseases. We will confidence together,” Kennedy wrote. “We will rebuild this institution with what was always supposed to be: US health and security.” He said that his deputy, Jim O’Neill, will serve as the director of the Acting Disease Control Center.
Nine former managers at the Center for Disease Control or Directors who served during the era of Republicans and Democrats Kennedy followed the launch of Monarerez, saying in an article in the New York Times Impact About public health “unacceptable, and every American must be removed, regardless of political tendencies.”
Exception of the HHS Hilliad spokesperson with this point, as he listed four Covid vaccines that continue to get NOD for use.
However, the Food and Drug Administration last
The approved week of Covid MRNA was updated only for 65 or larger people and others at a high risk of complications. The Disease Control Center also stopped recommending shots for healthy children and pregnant women. Previously, the shots were advised Anyone 6 months or larger.
As a result, many people who do not meet the standards but want the vaccine to get recipes or consult their doctors. Insurance may not always cover the shots that can be operated About 200 dollars. A major pharmacy like Walgrens and CVS He said that the shots may not be available in all pharmacies and may require a prescription.
the American Academy of Pediatrics On August 19, the administration erupted, and it recommended that all young children get a Covid vaccine. Insurance may still not cover the cost in some cases, and parents may face obstacles in obtaining vaccines without a prescription.
Next step: Consulting Committee
Kennedy and his team changed the official Covid vaccine recommendations, although there are no new safety problems. A dose of the Covid Mrna 2023-24 vaccine prevented a large disease and death in all age groups, according to The study was published in August Leaded by Michigan University researcher. The virus was killed around 1000 people per week In the United States in mid -January, cases are oscillating again and this winter is expected to accelerate.
Kennedy chose a vaccine consulting committee for CDC, which is reviewing the Covid vaccines based on Marna, which Falsely claim In 2021 it was “the most bloody vaccine ever.” Covid vaccine review is driven by Rifi LeviProfessor of Operations Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he said without evidence that the shots were caused Serious damageIncluding death. If you recommend the committee against them, Kennedy and FDA can start removing it from the market.
Taking COVID shots based on the market from the market would leave consumers with fewer protection options. Paxlovid, an antiviral drug that treats infection in high -risk adults, will be available.
The COVID’s consulting consultative committee also reviews Covid shots, which is looking for a long aluminum link, and is used in many childhood vaccinations such as those for hepatitis A, pneumonia, autism or allergies.
Some public health officials say that the results of the group are expected to support the wrong link. HHS can then ask the drug makers to make an expensive reformulation of the shots or stop manufacturing them completely.
“This would put the elimination of all childhood vaccines,” said Bayser.
The consulting group Next meeting He was appointed on September 18, although Senator Bill Casidi (R-La) has called for A meeting to be delayed indefinitely. Cassidy’s voice, a doctor who heads the Health, Education and Pensions Committee for the Senate, in favor of Kennedy’s assertion as minister of HHS After receiving the assurancesHe said that the vaccine deduction for a long time will not disrupt the American vaccination system. Cassidy said that Kennedy’s promises included that he would not change the advisory committee for immunization practices at the Center for Disease Control.
Kennedy removed all members of the committee in June and replaced them with his own appointments, including anti -vaccine activists.
He said that Kennedy’s move to place his seal on the center of control over diseases depends on the fact that the states that have long relied on the agency’s experience and assistance in crises such as outbreaks, will be left largely to support themselves. Ashish J.Who served as coordinator of President Joe Biden Kovid from 2022 to 2023.
Jah said: “You will leave the states alone.” “Countries will struggle with the Center for Disease Control, unable to be unable and disturbed.
The Center for Disease Control usually plays Decisive By helping countries in monitoring diseases, public health interventions, and responding to the spread, especially when the crisis leaks through state lines. The outbreak of measles this year led to more than 1,400 cases in the country, and the states, including Texas, where the outbreak of the disease has been determined, Struggle for help From the Center for Disease Control.
CDC program that has long tracked pathogens in food Reduce the number One of the risks that he is looking for from eight to two, which public health leaders say make it difficult to determine the outbreak of the disease. The employees were also supervised by the CDC program that tracks external pollution that can exacerbate asthma.
The agency runs a hot line that doctors all over the country can call for treatment and other types of tips. Windy Armstrong, Vice President at Association of infectious Diseases America.
Armstrong said: “Life is 100 % stake, there is no doubt about it,” Armstrong said. “You can no longer trust recommendations outside the center of diseases control. It is a horrific thing that we think we cannot trust that information is based on science anymore.”
Kennedy wants to get rid of the leadership of the Disease Control Center because he sees that the agency is the heart of corruption and resistance within the federal health bureaucracy, according to people familiar with its planning. Kennedy said that the agency suffers from Narrow and bias.
However, many public health leaders look at the Center for Disease Control as under siege by an administration that they say spoils its own ends. HHS employees signed On the message This now has more than 6800 signatures, saying that Kennedy “endangered the country’s health by spreading frequently inaccurate health information.”
Kennedy was also strengthening the increasing criticism of his response to shooting at the headquarters of the Disease Control Center. He responded to the attack on social media, after hours, after its first publication Pictures of himself fishing.
The employee of the Disease Control Center said that some younger employees are thinking about leaving and some workers feel that the shooting of the agency was shot.
With the battle to control the center of disease control, public health leaders are still looking forward to Congress to put the brakes on Kennedy. Some Republican lawmakers called for a review of Kennedy’s actions.
“This outstanding departure will require supervision by the Assistance Committee,” Casidi He said Aug 27 On the social platform X. Cassidy Monarez supported the agency’s leadership.
Renoka Rayasam, KFF Health News, and Andy Miller contributed to this article.