‘Enough Is Enough’: Gay CDC Official Resigns, Says ‘Nation’s Health Security Is at Risk’

‘Enough is enough’: Gay CDC official resigns, says ‘nation’s health security is at risk’

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a prominent out gay official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a former assistant commissioner of the New York City health department, abruptly resigned and criticized the Trump administration’s public health policies in a scathing open letter on Aug. 27. Daskalakis’s letter coincided with a dramatic wave of other resignations at the CDC amid growing frustration over the administration’s approach…

Out CDC Vaccine Chief Resigns, Saying ‘Enough Is Enough’ With Trump And RFK Jr.

The Advocate reports that Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, one of the nation’s most visible public health leaders and a longtime trusted voice for LGBTQ+ communities, has resigned from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He denounced what he describes as a wholesale dismantling of science under President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F.…