Sen Sanders wants RFK JR after CDC director quit over vaccine policy

Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy -Younger. After several high -ranking officials at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency went.

Trump’s administration announced the removal of CDC director Susan Manaraz earlier this week, less than a month after she was confirmed after she refused Kennedy’s directives to take new restrictions on some vaccines, including for the COVID-19 vaccine.

Four other high-ranking CDC officials resigned after protesting after the Monores failure, pointing, partly, to the anti-vaccine policy pushed by Kennedy. Hundreds of agency employees also left the CDC KDC headquarters in support of their former colleagues.

In response to Sanders’ departures, he wrote in the New York Times that Kennedy was at risk of health of the American people now and the future “and accused the secretary of the monoraz because she refused to” act as a rubber brand for her dangerous policy. “

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Senator Bernie Sanders demands that Health Secretary and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy -Youth resigned. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“Despite the prevailing opposition of the medical community, Kennedy’s secretary continued his long -standing campaign against vaccines and his propaganda conspiracy theories that have repeatedly rejected scientific experts,” Sanders wrote in a work published on Saturday.

“It is inappropriate to say this in 2025, but the vaccines are safe and effective,” he added. “This is, of course, not only my view. It is much more important, it is the overwhelming consensus of medical and scientific communities.”

Sander She also noted that vaccines for diseases such as polio and COVID-19 have rescued hundreds of millions of lives around the world.

Sanders, a member of the Senate Health Committee ranking, opposed Kennedy’s confirmation earlier this year. The secretary swore in February. HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Nel was elected Acting Director CDC after the monoraz’s abolition.

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Sanders said Kennedy “is at risk of health of the American people now and in the future.” (Reuters/Pedro Lazaro Fernandez)

Trump’s administration defended Monorez’s disruption, the White House press secretary Carolyn Levit On Thursday they say that the president has “powers to dismiss those who do not comply with their mission.”

“President and Secretary Kennedy seek to restore trust and transparency and authority for the CDC, providing their leadership and their decisions more public, more accountable, strengthening and responding to our public health system and restoring its main mission of protecting Americans from communication diseases, putting in innovation, to prevent and react.

Sanders called for a Monores breakdown earlier this week, criticizing this step as “reckless” and “dangerous”.

In OP-ED, he wrote that Kennedy “made a profit and created a career on the vaccines,” adding that the secretary “uses his powers to launch a full-scale science, public health and the truth.” He also said that the Americans would become more difficult to get “rescue vaccines” and Kennedy leads HHS.

The Trump administration announced the removal of CDC director Susan Manaraz earlier this week. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

“The danger here is that the diseases that were virtually destroyed from safe and effective vaccines will occur and will cause great damage,” Sanders wrote, emphasizing that the United States should be better prepared in the case of another pandemic.

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“Secretary Kennedy is at risk of Americans’ lives, and he has to resign,” Sanders wrote. “In its place, President Trump should listen to doctors and scientists and nominate the CDC Health and Director who will protect the health and well -being of the American people, and not pursue a dangerous policy based on conspiracy theories.”

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Reuters contributed to this report.