RFK Jnr is ‘endangering’ all Americans, health agency ex-leaders warn

Nine former leaders of the top US health body sounded the alarm on Monday about the Trump administration’s evisceration of the agency and warned that vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jnr is “endangering every American’s health”.

The blunt guest essay in The New York Times marks the latest in snowballing attacks on the US health secretary after the director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention was recently fired by US President Donald Trump

after just weeks in her post.

The removal triggered the resignation of at least four top officials and plunged the agency deeper into chaos.

What Kennedy has done to the CDC and the nation’s public health system – “culminating in his decision to fire Dr Susan Monarez as CDC director days ago – is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced”, the experts wrote.