RFK Jr. Just Kneecapped the CDC on His First Day

[Eugene]

Source: The New Republic

RFK Jr. Just Kneecapped the CDC on His First Day

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Fri, February 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM EST 2 min read

Hours after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the Department of Health and Human Services would not undergo a staff purge, it did.

The Trump administration laid off half of its Epidemic Intelligence Service, otherwise known as the “Disease Detectives.” The lay off affected 1,260 staff, reported NBC News’s Lewis Kamb.

Top-ranking officials with the CDC, the HHS subagency that oversees the program, told CBS News that the cuts would have a devastating effect on the country’s ability to assess blooming diseases. They are just some of the thousands of probationary workers taking a hit as Elon Musk’s DOGE combs the federal government for possible programs to slash.

“The country is less safe,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, an alumna of the disease research program, told CBS. “These are the deployable assets critical for investigating new threats, from anthrax to Zika.”

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-just-kneecapped-cdc-213212470.html

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Also: RFK Jr.: I’m Already Planning a Purge of the Health Department (The Daily Beast)

[3catwoman3]

1. ""If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any."

I'm sure we all remember this bit of idiocy during the surge of COVID cases.

[Deuxcents]

2. Every senator that confirmed him and the others hell bent on purging had to know this was going to happen

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

3. And I hope some of them come down with a nasty disease.

They helped release this plague on the citizenry that is going to result in a lot of preventable deaths and suffering.

I am just thankful my wife and I were able to get our COVID booster and flu shot last November. Will it still be available in the future?

[3Hotdogs]

11. Anal Fistula almost died from the last major outbreak: Covid.

Rona almost got him.


I recommend a GoFund account to raise money for gift certificates, good for Big Macs. Send them to Mere-a-Loco.

[DENVERPOPS]

13. They should be glad

that DC isn't under any of the migratory bird flight paths............

I think all of these agencies were probably working overtime on the impending Avian Flu pandemic potential......

The way the viruses mutate, it is just a matter of time before the Avian flu begins to go to work on humans......

It already has skipped from wild birds, to birds raised for human consumption, to livestock, and now is appearing in humans.....

[Traildogbob]

4. But "God" sent him trump

After being on his knees every day praying for a way to save children.
His fucking words at swearing in.
Every damn day God seems to be an ass. Is he just sick of our stupid asses. Embarrassed by his creation of one species of his grand creation?
He gonna lets us wipe ourselves out and save the rest of life this time.
Will the trump clan be his new Noah, to repopulate the planet. MAGA-Lardo the Arch? Maybe he will allow the Barbie cheerleader press secretary and a few other loyal breed-able young blond whites for the boys to procreate. Daddy trump got no ammo in the mushroom.

[JohnSJ]

5. It is very clear no federal government agency under the sociopath can be trusted for correct information, and we need to

deal with health issues through our primary care physician, and making sure our PCP is not a MAGA.

[Pinback]

8. I'll pay attention to state and international agencies

CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota (Dr. Michael Osterholm’s team) have become my top source for information on infectious diseases. Dr. Peter Hotez at Baylor, of course, is also excellent.

It’s pathetic that this anti-science sociopath has been given the keys to one of the most important organizations in the world, just so he can destroy it.

[JohnSJ]

9. Agreed.

[DinahMoeHum]

10. Methinks we should also turn to the AMA. . .

American Medical Association.

[DENVERPOPS]

12. LOL

Most Dr.'s I know detest Medicare and Medicaid.........and will be happy to see them both go away......

The AMA represents the Doctors, not the citizens......

[bamagal62]

6. I just want them all

To die of some horrible virus.

[Dem4life1234]

18. Weird how this supposed Kennedy curse missed him

What an odious man.

Ugly inside and on the outside.

[Baron2024]

7. Terrible

I hope that Blue State Governments like California, Michigan, and New York can pick up some of the slack and maybe have their Departments of Health hire some of these federal experts. At least to preserve some of their professional expertise. Trump Musk is the destruction of American Civilization. Since much of the Federal Government is being dissolved it may fall to the States to perform some of the functions that the Feds used to do.

[bmichaelh]

14. Does Trump hate science as well

Trump is on record stating that he will let RFK Jr go wild on health, food and medicines.

I was wrong about this whole confirmation.

I thought vaccine makers would have put pressure on GOP in Senate not to confirm.

Is Trump's revenge tour not just against individuals but against Science as well.

If there is another pandemic or COVID mutates, it will not be RFK Jr that would get USA out of it but Science.

[Dem4life1234]

19. That's what I thought, too

I thought big pharma would have put an end to this bullshit.

[C0RI0LANUS]

15. Why would any Democratic Senator vote to confirm RFK Jr? Isn't JD Vance away?

[ReRe]

16. Reminder

Everything they are undoing is going to hurt them and theirs as much as it hurts us and ours.

[LymphocyteLover]

17. Gee.... WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG???? These evil idiots.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. Idiots