CDC Official Who Resigned in Protest: ‘I Hit My Tipping Point ... I Was Only Going To Be Able To Do Harm if I Stayed’

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Figure out zoom one day.
>> I’m disappointing you here. Sorry.
>> There it is.
>> So? So. No. I wish it had just been a tumultuous week. It’s really been a tumultuous.
>> Year that what.
>> Really happened.
>> Is that, you know, this has been a death by a thousand cuts for me. But I really got to the tipping point when it became clear that the committee.
>> That is responsible.
>> For making recommendations to the director of CDC on. Vaccine policy has become completely compromised, and that the firewall that needs to exist between science and ideology is breaking down.
>> When that.
>> Happens, CDC science.
>> Gets tainted. By ideology.
>> And that means the Americans, American people’s. vaccine policy will be tainted by ideology.
>> And.
>> Not be driven by science. Compounded by doctor menorahs being asked to step down or resigning, whichever happened, that meant that we had no scientific leadership to be a diplomat into that space, to make sure.
>> That that firewall.
>> Could stay.
>> I hit.