Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffers from “malaise” and questioned the importance of vaccines as a medical intervention in a television appearance Thursday, one day after he abruptly fired the CDC’s director , an appointee of President Trump, and several top officials at the agency resigned in protest, with one citing Kennedys’ “weaponization of public health.”

“What I will say is President Trump has very ambitious hopes for the CDC right now,” Kennedy said on the Fox News show “Fox & Friends . ” “ CDC has problems. We saw the misinformation coming out of Covid, they got the testing wrong, they got the social distancing, the masks, the school closures that have done so much harm to the American people.

“Today, on the CDC

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