‘Enough is enough’: Gay CDC official resigns, says ‘nation’s health security is at risk’

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a prominent out gay official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a former assistant commissioner of the New York City health department, abruptly resigned and criticized the Trump administration’s public health policies in a scathing open letter on Aug. 27. Daskalakis’s letter coincided with a dramatic wave…