The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged in a private meeting with staff that he has had “scientific” disagreements with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.
“Do we agree on every single item? No,” Jay Bhattacharya told a staff Q&A on Wednesday, according to NOTUS, which obtained an audio recording of the meeting. “We may have disagreements about scientific matters, but he listens.”
Their main source of disagreements is Kennedy’s controversial anti-vaccine views. Bhattacharya, a health economist and Stanford professor who gained national attention as a critic of COVID-19 shutdown policies, told employees of the public health agency that he would continue to encourage parents to vaccinate their children.
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