Public Health Physician Schools Ex-RNC Spox With The 'Hardcore Truth' For Trump
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Dr. Chris T. Pernell called out the Trump White House's "fundamental lack of understanding" on public health.
A public health physician put President Donald Trump’s administration on blast on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House looks to fire thousands of federal health workers.
“When you gut the very teams, scientists, physicians, leaders, who have been trained, who have studied, who have lived experience... so that we are not unable to neutralize threats, you only proliferate threats in the United States and you proliferate those threats abroad,” said Dr. Chris T. Pernell on “CNN NewsNight” with Abby Phillip.
“This is not pseudoscience. This is not conjecture. This is not imagination. This is hardcore truth.”
The report notes that — on top of slashing jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services — the White House is preparing an executive order that would also call for the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health agencies to make cuts, as well.
Pernell, the regent-at-large for the American College of Preventive Medicine and director of the NAACP Center for Health Equity, declared that the Trump administration didn’t learn its “lessons” following the COVID-19 pandemic. She said there are now “proliferating” threats to public health in the president’s second term.
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