Why 🦖 PublicHealthOversight picked: Demetre Daskalakis, CDC’s top immunization official, resigned in 2025 to protest Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then became one of his loudest critics. The shift might seem like a retreat from the national stage. Daskalakis sees it differently.

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