The White House defends Robert F Kennedy Jr in the middle of the CDC disorders

The White House defends the health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr after a chaotic week in the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) who led to calls for his withdrawal.

On Friday, the deputy chief of staff of the White House, Stephen Miller, called Kennedy, also known as RFK JR, “a jewel of the crown of this administration”.

Earlier this week, CDC chief, Dr. Susan Monarez, was dismissed because she was “not aligned with the president’s agenda,” the White House said in a statement, and was replaced by RFK deputy Jr, Jim O’Neill.

At least, three senior CDC leaders have since resigned for frustrations concerning the leadership and vaccination policy of Kennedy. The discomfort led to certain legislators calling for its resignation.

Miller called Kennedy “one of the largest voices, defenders and public health experts” in the world “, and said that he worked hard to restore the credibility and integrity of the CDC, which is one of the main health organs in the world.

Kennedy does not hold a medical diploma and had law training before Trump hits him out to lead the Ministry of Health and Social Services (HHS). The ministry oversees a variety of American health companies, including CDC.

The BBC contacted HHS and representatives for Kennedy.

The recent torment follows the CDC in dismissal 600 employees earlier this month, according to a union representing workers.

Large -scale layoffs include employees working on government’s response to infectious diseases, including bird flu, as well as those looking for environmental risks and requesting information on the public file.

Since its entry into office, Kennedy, a vaccination critic, has made a number of financing and modifications to the way the United States recommend and regulate vaccinations that have arranged public health experts.

He previously helped manage an anti-vaccine group and have repeatedly declared largely demystified assertions concerning the vaccine damage.

The former CDC chief doctor, Dr. Debra Houry, one of the officials who resigned this week, told the BBC Newshour Radio program that Kennedy’s policies lacked scientific integrity.

“I am extremely worried that with continuous resignations, layoffs, pensions, all due to what is happening thanks to some of these policies, which we will not have the capacity to continue to do good science, to respond to an epidemic and to prevent chronic diseases,” she said.

She added that the worst case of the result of Kennedy policies is the disruption of the vaccine calendar for children, which could lead to the spread of “preventable diseases again in the United States, such as polio and measles”.

Several Democratic senators have called for the resignation of Kennedy, including Jon Ossoff as Georgia – who qualified the “charlatan” health secretary – and the chief of the minorities of the Senate Chuck Schumer.

“Donald Trump knew that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be a disastrous choice to conduct health care in America and he nominated it anyway. Donald Trump made this mistake and now he has to dismiss RFK Jr. immediately,” said Schumer in a written statement.

Several Republicans have also expressed discomfort in the face of CDC developments, the Senator of Maine Susan Collins saying that there was “no base” to remove Monarez from her position. She asked for a conference hearing to examine what is happening at the agency.

The Republican senator Bill Cassidy, who heads the Senate, Education, Labor and Pensions Senate Committee – which checked the appointment of Kennedy – said the panel would monitor high -level departures.

He also urged a delay on an audience of the Vaccines Advisory Committee scheduled for next month, saying that there were allegations that the panel had no “scientific process”.

“If the meeting takes place, the recommendations made should be dismissed as lacking in legitimacy given the gravity of allegations and current disorders in CDC leadership,” he said.

Robert F Kennedy Jr wrote an open letter to CDC employees after the removal of Monarez and the departure of several senior officials, according to American media.

“I undertake to work with you to restore confidence, transparency and credibility to the CDC. Your daily efforts – often invisible – have a life,” he wrote.

“The reform does not decrease your work; this strengthens it. The American people are ready to believe again in this agency if we show them that integrity, responsibility and science guide each decision,” added Kennedy.

The Secretary of Health also said that he wanted to rebuild the CDC in “a health and security guard of the United States”.