US EditionCDC staffers stage mass walkout after leadership resignations
Hundreds of CDC employees protested leadership changes and political interference, following resignations of senior officials who opposed unscientific vaccine policies and agency purges.
- Employees at the Centers for Disease Control staged a walkout to protest changes made under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. following the resignation of three top officials on August 28, 2025.
- The protest was organized in support of Demetre Daskalakis, Daniel Jernigan, and Debra Houry, who resigned due to objections to new vaccine policies.
- Hundreds of HHS employees accused Kennedy of being 'complicit in dismantling America’s public health infrastructure' and urged him to revise his rhetoric and policies.
- Following the protest, senior officials warned that the agency is at risk of further resignations and instability if changes are not made.
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CDC staffers stage mass walkout after leadership resignations
CDC staffers staged a walkout at the agency’s headquarters in support of recently resigned officials. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said he resigned because ideology was interfering with the agency’s science.
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