Dr. Ralph Abraham, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC) resigned Monday, according to a department news release.
The CDC said Abraham’s resignation was effective immediately. He had been on the job less than three months.
Before his tenure with the CDC, Abraham was surgeon general for Louisiana where he ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and called Covid vaccines “dangerous,” according to the New York Times.
Similar to his boss, Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of the Department of Health, Abraham has dismissed the escalating measles outbreaks in the United States and the potential loss of the country’s measles elimination status as the “cost of doing business.”
In the past year, the C.D.C. has rescinded recommendations for several childhood vaccines, prompting medical organizations to sue the Health Department and distance themselves from the agency.
