American officials in the healthcare agencies are asking for health secretary Robert Kennedy JR not to misinform about vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Credit Line: Evan Vucci / Ap / Profimedia
Hundreds of employees and former employees of American sanitary agencies accuse the Trump Secretary of Health in an open letter on Wednesday, Vaccinosceptic Robert Kennedy JR, of endangering them by propagating false information, informs AFP and Agerpres.
This call comes almost two weeks after an armed attack on the headquarters of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the main US sanitary agency.
A vehement man against vaccines against Covid-19 targeted on August 8 several CDC buildings in Atlanta, in southeast US, and killed a policeman who intervened. Over 500 cartridges were found on the spot.
This attack “was not accidental”, estimates officials in this open letter, accusing “a context of increasing distrust of public institutions, mistrust of a politicized rhetoric who transformed the professionals in the field of public health, once considered confident experts, in targets of diabolization”.
“Robert Kennedy Jr endangers the health of the nation”
One phenomenon that Minister Robert Kennedy Jr, who has distributed false information about vaccines and accused the agencies he leads, is accused of feeding him.
Robert Kennedy JR “is complicit in the destruction of the US public health infrastructure and endangers the health of the nation, repeatedly diffuses erroneous sanitary information,” accuses the signatures of the letter, implining the minister to stop acting.
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After taking over the position of Secretary of Health, the nephew of the JFK assassinated president multiplied his announcements, especially on vaccines, against the scientific consensus.
An change of attitude towards vaccines denounced by numerous experts. In this context, a petition was launched to the Congress requesting its dismissal and which raised over 12,600 signatures until Wednesday.
This open letter of health officials, some of whom wanted to keep their anonymity, comes from other similar texts signed by federal employees to denounce the actions of the Trump administration.
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