More than 750 current and former staff of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are calling on Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stop "spreading inaccurate health information" and do more to protect public health professionals in the wake of a shooting at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) earlier this month.

The letter sent Wednesday to Kennedy and members of Congress accused the secretary of endangering the nation's health and the lives of his employees with his rhetoric. The staff noted the Aug. 8 attack “was not random.”

“The attack came amid growing mistrust in public institutions, driven by politicized rhetoric that has turned public health professionals from trusted experts into targets of villainization—and now, violence,” the le

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