CDC leader says she will disagree privately with HHS secretary
Erica Schwartz, newly in charge of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in her first interview that she will privately disagree with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. but will not publicly contradict him, and that Kennedy makes final decisions. Her remarks follow the firing of a prior CDC director who pushed back on Kennedy's vaccine agenda and come amid a record measles outbreak after Schwartz directed the agency to dispute four Pennsylvania measles-associated deaths and exclude them from the official tally, prompting bipartisan concern about CDC independence and reporting.
Schwartz will publicly defer to the HHS secretary on final decisions
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Kennedy has pushed a vaccine agenda and recently clashed with Pennsylvania officials over measles deaths. A previous CDC director who opposed Kennedy was fired after less than a month. Schwartz now leads the agency and faces questions…
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