Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Richard Besser (pictured) said on Sunday that he is "outraged" by US President-elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
"The head of Health and Human Services touches programs that affect every single life in our country," Besser told ABC, stressing that "lives are at stake." "To have someone leading HHS who is one of the biggest deniers of vaccines in our country, would undermine the confidence in that program and likely will cost lives," he added.
"Once the level of vaccination in the classroom drops under 95%, it's a setup for immune diseases, like measles...to spread," Besser stated, underlining that Kennedy's claims linking vaccines to autism, something that the former CDC head says had been debunked decades ago, are "a cruel thing to do."
