Posted on 08/28/2025 6:10:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
Monkey Pox Dr. Demetre Daskalakis
Back in September 2023, Joe Biden announced a new team to lead the White House’s national monkeypox response.
Biden named Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as the White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator.
Demetre Daskalakis Instagram
On Wednesday Dr. Daskalakis turned in his resignation at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His resignation came hours after news broke that CDC Director Susan Monarez was ousted from the agency.
His resignation comes on the same day that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a slew of changes to limit access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
On Wednesday the FDA officially rescinded the Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for the COVID-19 vaccines, the authorizations that were used to justify medical mandates, lockdowns, and mass coercion under Joe Biden’s failed regime.
RFK Jr., fulfilling a major campaign promise of President Donald Trump’s administration, made it clear that the era of unchecked mandates is over:
“I promised 4 things:
1. to end covid vaccine mandates.
2. to keep vaccines available to people who want them, especially the vulnerable.
3. to demand placebo-controlled trials from companies.
4. to end the emergency.
In a series of FDA actions today we accomplished all four goals. The emergency use authorizations for Covid vaccines, once used to justify broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration, are now rescinded.
FDA has now issued marketing authorization for those at higher risk: Moderna (6+ months), Pfizer (5+), and Novavax (12+). These vaccines are available for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors.
The developments were too much for Dr. Demetre Daskalakis. He submitted his resignation earlier today.
He will be missed.
Joe Biden’s monkey Pox czar Dr. Demetre – via instagram
Dr. Demetre released a long-winded screed following his resignation. He signs it he/him.
My resignation letter from CDC.
Dear Dr. Houry,
I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business. I am happy to stay on for two weeks to provide transition, if requested.
This decision has not come easily, as I deeply value the work that the CDC does in safeguarding public health and am proud of my contributions to that critical mission.
However, after much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough.
While I hold immense respect for the institution and my colleagues, I believe that it is imperative to align my professional responsibilities to my system of ethics and my understanding of the science of infectious disease, immunology, and my promise to serve the American people.
This step is necessary to ensure that I can contribute effectively in a capacity that allows me to remain true to my principles.
I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health. The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.
The data analyses that supported this decision have never been shared with CDC despite my respectful requests to HHS and other leadership.
This lack of meaningful engagement was further compounded by a “frequently asked questions” document written to support the Secretary’s directive that was circulated by HHS without input from CDC subject matter experts and that cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors.
Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people.
It is untenable to serve in an organization that is not afforded the opportunity to discuss decisions of scientific and public health importance released under the moniker of CDC.
The lack of communication by HHS and other CDC political leadership that culminates in social media posts announcing major policy changes without prior notice demonstrate a disregard of normal communication channels and common sense.
Having to retrofit analyses and policy actions to match inadequately thought-out announcements in poorly scripted videos or page long X posts should not be how organizations responsible for the health of people should function.
Some examples include the announcement of the change in the COVID-19 recommendations for children and pregnant people, the firing of scientists from ACIP by X post and an op-ed rather than direct communication with these valuable experts, the announcement of new ACIP members by X before onboarding and vetting have completed, and the release of term of reference for an ACIP workgroup that ignored all feedback from career staff at CDC.
The recent term of reference for the COVID vaccine work group created by this ACIP puts people of dubious intent and more dubious scientific rigor in charge of recommending vaccine policy to a director hamstrung and sidelined by an authoritarian leader.
Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults. Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc.
I have always been first to challenge scientific and public health dogma in my career and was excited by the opportunity to do so again. I was optimistic that there would be an opportunity to brief the Secretary about key topics such as measles, avian influenza, and the highly coordinated approach to the respiratory virus season.
Such briefings would allow exchange of ideas and a shared path to support the vision of “Making America Healthy Again.”
We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary. I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us.
Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources.
At a hearing, Secretary Kennedy said that Americans should not take medical advice from him. To the contrary, an appropriately briefed and inquisitive Secretary should be a source of health information for the people he serves. As it stands now, I must agree with him, that he should not be considered a source of accurate information.
The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer.
I believe in nutrition and exercise. I believe in making our food supply healthier, and I also believe in using vaccines to prevent death and disability. Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun.
The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud.
I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions’ words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur. I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed.
For decades, I have been a trusted voice for the LGBTQ community when it comes to critical health topics. I must also cite the recklessness of the administration in their efforts to erase transgender populations, cease critical domestic and international HIV programming, and terminate key research to support equity as part of my decision.
Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world. The nation’s health security is at risk and is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.
I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the opportunities for growth, learning, and collaboration that I have been afforded during my time at the CDC.
It has been a privilege to work alongside such dedicated professionals who are committed to improving the health and well-being of communities across the nation even when under attack from within both physically and psychologically.
Thank you once again for the support and guidance I have received from you and previous CDC leadership throughout my tenure.
I wish the CDC continued success in its vital mission and that HHS reverse its dangerous course to dismantle public health as a practice and as an institution. If they continue the current path, they risk our personal well-being and the security of the United States.
Sincerely,
Demetre C. Daskalakis MD MPH (he/his/him)
Even if I ran into him in an Emergency Room and was bleeding out with two broken legs, I would run for my life despite being strapped to IVs and on a stretcher.
Hmmmm, Greek heritage, eh? That explains……
Resign? He should have been shitcanned day 1.
This is not a serious person.
Another weirdo Biden hire.
stood up to fascist forces in Greece
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His granddaddy would probably spit on his grandsons shoes....or shoot him ..for being ANOTHER SOCIALIST scumbag like the ones he fought.
This guy is a moron or a liar
Or both.
That man would know a lot about originating monkey pox.
He lasted this long in the current administration? Yikes!
“Pregnant people”. SMH!
God helps those that help them self and he ain’t on the list.
“Biden named Dr. Demetre Daskalakis”
I can’t possibly imagine Jo Briben even coming close to pronouncing this name.
Dt Demento maybe.
Another participant in Genocide Light.
F’in Sodomites…
San Francisco
Wilton manors
Key west
The illegitimate biden mal-administration sure was full of the mentally ill.
What a freak show!!!
I wonder how his grandfather would feel watching him railing his boyfriends wrapped in leather.
Another weirdo Biden hire.
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And typical of a Biden/Leftist Democrat hire.
Goodbye FREAK.
Even with a doctorate, can any normal person take this guy seriously? Don’t care what he does off the clock, but when you are in a position of leadership and authority- you immediately lose credibility and respect from most serious adults when you share aberrant / freakish behavior.
To put a finer point on it: If there was a pandemic causing mass casualties- is this the trusted voice we would be looking for?! Good riddance FREAK.
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