Internal Emails Reveal Pressure on CDC After Kennedy Ordered Flu Vaccine Ads Removed
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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The article details the chaotic early days of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as health secretary in the Trump administration, focusing on a specific incident where his press secretary ordered the CDC to take down a flu vaccine advertising campaign during a severe flu season. Internal emails reveal the pressure CDC officials faced from the new secretary, highlighting tensions between political leadership and public health agencies.
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· 3 pulledLess than 24 hours after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the nation's health secretary, his press secretary delivered an order from him to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Take down your advertising campaign promoting flu vaccines.
Flu season was in full swing and it was a bad one. That same day, the C.D.C. reported that influenza-related ailments had killed 68 children — 11 that week alone — and 16,000 people overall.
A cache of internal emails offers a look at the pressure the nation's public health officials faced from the new health secretary in the early months of the Trump administration.
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