Nine former leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) accused Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday of “endangering every American’s health” by the way he’s managed the public health agency.

The former CDC directors and acting directors described Kennedy’s changes to the CDC, including last week’s firing of Susan Monarez as head of the agency, as being “unlike anything we had ever seen at the agency and unlike anything our country had ever experienced,” in a New York Times guest essay . 6

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The former officials, who served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, pointed to RFK Jr’s handling of the largest US measles outbreak in decades; his skepticism of vaccine safety ; funding cuts to state and local h

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