CDC Shooting Linked To Suspect's COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs, Former Staff Blame RFK Jr. Hostility Toward Agency

A group of former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employees are blaming HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for vilifying the agency’s workforce through “his continuous lies about science and vaccine safety, which have fueled a climate of hostility and mistrust."

The group, calling themselves Fired But Fighting, told ABC News the shooting was targeted. They’re now urging federal officials to speak out against vaccine misinformation, warning that it endangers scientists.

The comments come just days after a gunman attacked the agency's headquarters in Atlanta. The investigating officials at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed that the gunman was 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White.

Whtie fired 200 rounds on CDC employees, killing a police officer. He later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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