The debate on vaccine and public health explained

The centers for disease control and prevention face a leadership agitation, and in the center of the shake is the concern about the approach of the agency for vaccines and public health of the United States.

The White House said on Thursday that President Donald Trump had fired the director of the CDC, Susan Monarch, after she refused to resign. Monarch's lawyers said it was “attacked” for “protecting the public about serving a political agenda.”

Meanwhile, four other senior health officials of the CDCs announced Wednesday who resigned from the agency. That includes Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who said he could no longer serve due to the “public health weapon.”

The loss of these respected leaders and efforts to expel Monarez to follow a series of measures by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outstanding vaccine skeptic, to review federal health agencies and the immunization policy in the United States that includes massive shots, destroying a panel of vaccines of the key government, canceling the studies on ARNM technology on RNA Technology and change of views with a view of related ideas.

Kennedy has a long history of making misleading and false statements about the safety of vaccine shooting, but in his current role, he exercises enormous power over the agencies that regulate immunizations and determine that they can obtain them and which should cover the insurance plans.

Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said that the leadership review of the CDC represents the “failed leadership and the imprudent poor management of Kennedy”, and added that he has a “discarded disregard for science and public health based on evidence.”

The agency is also recovering from fund cuts and an attack on August 8 of an armed man at its headquarters in Atlanta.

Some health policy experts said that the leadership exodus could further erode public confidence in an agency responsible for detecting disease outbreaks and guiding state and local health departments when necessary.

“This must be seen in addition to a series of ways in which the CDCs have been weakened and undermined, perhaps irreversibly,” Lawrence Gostin, a professor of public health law at the University of Georgetown, told CNBC.

“Throughout all those years, the CDCs have been independent and the jewel of the crown of American science. That is literally crumbled while we talk,” he said. “This is almost the definition of politics that undermines science.”

Daskalakis was among the officials to explicitly highlight the concerns with Kennedy's opinions and his staff, who according to him challenged his ability to continue in his role in the agency.

“I cannot serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt instead of improving the public's health,” said Daskalakis in his renunciation letter, which was published in X.

He said that the recent changes of CDCs during the immunization of adults and children “threaten the lives of younger Americans and pregnant people.”

In May, Kennedy said the CDC eliminated COVID vaccines from the recommended shots list for healthy pregnant women and children. An updated guide said that the shots “can be given to those groups.

Daskalakis said that the data analysis that supported the change “have never been shared with the CDC despite my respectful requests to HHS and other leadership.” He also said that HHS distributed a document of “frequent questions” written to support Kennedy's decision without contributions from experts in the field of CDCs, and that he cited studies “that did not support the conclusions attributed to these authors.”

On Wednesday, the food and medication administration approved the last round of COVID vaccines only for those with a higher risk of serious diseases, marking another change in politics around those shots since the pandemic began.

Covid Vaccine Makers actions submerged Thursday. Modern The actions fell more than 3%, while the shares of Pfizer It fell around 2%.

These companies and other drug manufacturers have prepared for changes in vaccine and public health policy since Trump first appointed Kennedy as his choice to lead HHS in November. The leadership shake of the CDC only adds to uncertainty in the pharmaceutical industry, which is also dealing with Trump's drug policies.

Kennedy tried to distance himself from his previous views on vaccines and other health policies during the Senate confirmation audiences in January, claiming that he is not “anti -cacamia” and would not hinder “the people who take” routine shots for measles and polyomyelitis.

But some of Kennedy's recent efforts seem to reflect their critical views of the vaccine. For example, Kennedy in August argued that RNM vaccines, the technology used in Covid shots, are ineffective and advocate for the development of other jabs that use other “safer” platforms.

Years of research support the effectiveness of vaccines with COVID of RNM, and technology is now approved for use in shooting against the respiratory syncitial virus.

As the changes pass through CDCs, concerns about a threat to public health and protocol are growing.

Daskalakis criticized the means by which the HHS and other leadership of the CDCs have communicated important policy changes. For example, Kennedy announced that he was shooting the entire immunization practices advisory committee, a panel of vaccine advisors to the CDC, through an X Post and Op-Ed “instead of direct communication with these valuable experts,” said Daskalakis.

He said he thought there would be an opportunity to inform Kennedy about key issues such as measles, avian influenza and the respiratory virus season approach. But Daskalakis said that seven months after the new administration, no expert on CDC issues of his center had informed Kennedy.

“I'm not sure who the secretary is listening to, but certainly not for us,” he said. “External not vetted and conflict organizations seem to be the sources that HHS use on the standard gold science of CDC and other accredited sources.”

Dr. Debra Houry, who also resigned on Wednesday as a medical director of the CDC, said in a similar way that the upper leaders “could never inform the secretary” about any of the problems that the agency is treated.

“CDC scientists are first category and excellent,” he told MSNBC in an interview. “What we really had preferred was to have more interactions with the secretary.”

Houry added that “in recent months, things on CDC have been really difficult when it comes to having decisions based on science and data.”

As experts have long abandoned CDC, the threat of infectious diseases is growing. While measles cases work again in the US, the avian flu extends in cattle. In the country, the first human case of the parasite that eats flesh “New World Grande.

The exits could “make our public health less safe,” said Benjamin, of the American Public Health Association.

He said that the interruption of leadership also raises concerns about the nation's ability to detect and respond to a propagation of emerging infectious diseases because CDCs are the “glue that keeps” individual doctors and state and local health departments together.

“I worry that we don't know it on time, and that we will pursue that disease for much longer than we should,” said Benjamin.

Benjamin said he has “little confidence” that the Trump administration will find someone “highly competent” with relevant experience to replace Monarch.

“Obviously, everything has enormous implications for the health and welfare of the public, and huge implications around the finances of our nation,” he said. “Prevention and well -being saves us money, and public health is the best purchase.”