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The best spokesperson in the department of Health and social services announced his resignation Monday after being faced with secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Department’s response to growth measles epidemic.
Thomas Corry, who was deputy secretary for public affairs of the department for about two weeks, announced that he had resigned Friday in a LinkedIn articlesaying that his departure was “in force immediately”.
“For my HHS colleagues, I wish you the best and best success,” wrote Corry.
Corry’s departure would have been brought after disagreement with the deputy chief of staff of Kennedy and HHS, Stefanie Spear, about management in addition to the concerns concerning the measles answer, two people familiar with the question said Politico.
The independent asked HHS comments.
Certain parts of the United States are experiencing a measles epidemic with western areas of Texas, the largest number of cases in three decades. Until now, at least 146 people have been infected and a child of unaccomined school age has died in Texas because of the epidemic.
However, Kennedy, a long -standing skeptical of the vaccine, rejected concerns last week during the president Donald TrumpThe firm’s first meeting said that epidemics are “not unusual”.
Dnshots, an extremely contagious virus, has been eliminated in the United States thanks to the very effective and safe vaccine. However, an increasing anti-vaccine movement has inspired some parents not to vaccinate their children.
Kennedy stopped asking people to be vaccinated in a OP-ED for Fox Newspublished during the weekend, but encouraged parents to “consult their health care provider” to “understand their options to obtain the Ror vaccine. “”
“The measles epidemic is a call for action for all of us,” said the title of the article, the standfirst indicating: “The ROR vaccine is crucial to avoid a potentially fatal disease.” In the opening line of the article, RFK JR said that it was “deeply concerned about the recent measles epidemic”.
The remarks seem to mark a U-turn of Kennedy’s previous one The hawking skepticism of vaccines and conspiracy theories, including its promotion of the demystified idea that vaccines cause autism.
In addition to his comments on vaccines and autism, the secretary of HHS made other historical inflammatory remarks, in particular by suggesting in January 2022 that Anne Frank was in a better situation when she hid from the Nazis than the Americans were below COVID-19 (female mandates.
He also founded base that Covid-19 was an “organic weapon” that targets the “Caucasians and blacks” while sparing the Jews and the Chinese Ashkénazes.
