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On Sunday, CNN reported that the CDC held a video conference with approximately 800 staff members to discuss the traumatic event and allow them to ask questions. Staff said they felt like "sitting ducks" as bullets whizzed just over their cubicle walls and they dove for the floor.

President Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also described political violence as “wrong” and said his job is to protect employees.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. finally visited the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday, three days after a shooting took place. According to Channel 2 Action News,

The health secretary is one of the country's most prominent vaccine skeptics and has previously labeled the agency as a "cesspool of corruption."

The Trump administration’s COVID-revenge campaign has laid the groundwork for Kennedy’s larger agenda.

Current and former employees of the CDC are pushing for U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to denounce vaccine misinformation they say puts scientists at risk, as investigations into Friday’s shooting at the CDC in Atlanta continue.

It’s not just CDC officials and scientists who are outraged with Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: So is Trump's former surgeon general.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month quietly endorsed recommendations from his handpicked vaccine advisors that everyone in the U.S. ages 6 months and older receive a flu shot for the upcoming season.