Politically engineered chaos is destabilizing the top of America’s vital public health institutions, as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tenure challenges the historic role of government in widening access to vaccines.

The ouster Wednesday of Dr. Susan Monarez as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — less than a month after she was sworn in — deepened concerns about the role of Kennedy, who has a history of vaccine skepticism . It will fuel fresh concerns the Trump administration is politicizing medicine , rejecting science and creating new risks to public health .

Several other top CDC officials also announced they were quitting Wednesday, sending shock waves through an agency long regarded as the global gold standard that h

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