(The Hill) – Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday lamented the resignations of four senior leaders at the Center for Disease Control (CDC), warning of major concerns for public health.

"I worked alongside the three leading scientists at the CDC who resigned tonight," Becerra, who served in the Biden administration, wrote in a statement on social platform X.

“They were essential public health leaders who helped our country get out of the pandemic,” he continued. “Politicians don’t do science well. It is dangerous to put politics over public health. People will die."

The departures of the health policy leaders — including Deputy Director Debra Houry and Doctors Daniel Jernigan, Demete Daskalakis and Jennifer Layden — came after CDC Director Susan Mo

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