The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a new principal deputy director—a doctor who has criticized the agency for spreading misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic and spoken out against some vaccines.
Dr. Ralph Abraham, who was Louisiana’s surgeon general, has been hired as the CDC’s second-in-command, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) told The Epoch Times in an email on Nov. 26.
Abraham did not respond to a request for comment.
The CDC is currently headed by Jim O’Neill. The deputy secretary of HHS, the CDC’s parent agency, is serving as acting CDC director following President Donald Trump’s termination of Susan Monarez as CDC director in August, about one month after she was confirmed by the Senate….