Six former US surgeons general warn RFK Jr is ‘endangering nation’s health’

Former top doctors condemn health secretary's vaccine, research policies, saying ideology replaced science at HHS

Six former US surgeons general - the top medical posting in Washington - warned in an opinion column published on Tuesday that policy changes enacted by the health and human services (HHS) secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, are endangering the health of the nation".

The surgeons general - Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher - who served under both Republican and Democrat administrations, identified changes in vaccine policy, medical research funding, a shift in priorities from rationality to ideology, plunging morale, and changes to staffing as areas of concern.