卫生与公众服务部(HHS)对最近六位卫生部长撰写的专栏文章进行了反击，他们说，他们想警告美国小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪部长的危险
专栏文章，在《华盛顿邮报》出版周二，称卫生部长的政策和立场是对国家健康的“直接和前所未有的”威胁。
在美国广播公司新闻的一份声明中，HHS发言人Andrew Nixon说，这些医生就是“导致美国公共健康下降”的同一批官员
声明继续说，他们“现在批评第一书记正面应对这一问题”。“我们仍然致力于恢复信任，改革破碎的医疗体系，并确保每个美国人都能在医疗保健中获得真正的选择。”
在专栏中，外科医生总引用了Kennedy的观点，包括重复错误的说法，即儿童疫苗会导致自闭症，并歪曲新冠肺炎疫苗的风险，尽管研究他们发现疫苗预防了数百万的住院和死亡。
“国家的医生”通常被描述为卫生局局长，因为他们为国家提供公共卫生指导和警告，还指出了肯尼迪做出的决定，包括兜售未经证实的疗法随着麻疹在美国的传播。
他们还引用了他的撤销所有17名成员的职务疾病控制和预防中心的疫苗咨询委员会和用他亲自挑选的成员来代替他们他们中的许多人分享了疫苗怀疑论者的观点。
杰罗姆·亚当斯博士是作者之一，他在唐纳德·特朗普总统第一个任期的大部分时间里担任卫生局局长，包括新冠肺炎·疫情的早期。
在一个在X上发布亚当斯与论坛版分享了一个链接，他提到虚假信息、对医生失去信任以及对公共健康的破坏比香烟更致命。
“我和其他五位健在的外科医生都不想发出这种前所未有的警告——但所有人都感到有责任这样做，”他写道。
理查德·卡莫纳博士在2002年至2006年担任乔治·w·布什总统的卫生局局长，也是专栏的另一位作者，他告诉美国广播公司新闻，他敦促美国人“无视”肯尼迪的疫苗言论。
“我代表人民，疫苗是安全的，你应该咨询你的健康提供者，获得最好的信息，让你的孩子接种疫苗，不幸的是，忽略你从肯尼迪部长和他的许多政治被任命者继续提供错误和虚假信息来迷惑公众，”他说。
一个月前，疾病预防控制中心的七名前主任和两名前代理主任发表了评论为《纽约时报》写了一篇专栏文章，指责肯尼迪危害美国人的健康。
HHS hits back at former surgeons general who wrote op-ed saying RFK Jr. is endangering nation's health
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hit back at an op-ed written by the most recent six surgeons general, who said they wanted to warn the U.S. about the dangers of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The op-ed,published in The Washington Poston Tuesday, called the health secretary’s policies and positions an "immediate and unprecedented" threat to the nation’s health.
In a statement to ABC News, HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said the doctors are the same officials "who presided over the decline in America's public health."
They "are now criticizing the first Secretary to confront it head-on," the statement continued. "We remain committed to restoring trust, reforming broken health systems, and ensuring that every American has access to real choice in their health care."
In the op-ed, the surgeons general referenced views held by Kennedy, including repeating the false claim that childhood vaccines cause autism and misrepresenting risks of COVID-19 vaccines, despitestudiesthat found the shots prevented millions of hospitalizations and deaths.
The "nation’s doctors" as surgeon generals are commonly described because they give public health guidance and warnings to the country, also pointed to decisions made by Kennedy -- includingtouting unproven treatmentsas measles spread in the U.S.
They also referenced hisremoval of all 17 membersof the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee andreplacing them with his own hand-selected members, many of whom have shared vaccine-skeptic views.
Among the authors was Dr. Jerome Adams, who served as surgeon general for most of President Donald Trump’s first term, including the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In apost on Xsharing a link to the op-ed, Adams referred to disinformation, the loss of trust in doctors and the destruction of public health as deadlier than cigarettes.
"Neither I nor the other five living Surgeons General wanted to call for this unprecedented warning- but all felt compelled by duty to do so," he wrote.
Dr. Richard Carmona, who served as surgeon general under President George W. Bush from 2002 to 2006 and another author of the op-ed, told ABC News he is urging Americans to "disregard" Kennedy's vaccine rhetoric.
"On behalf of the people,vaccines are safe, you should consult with your health provider, get the best information, get your child vaccinated, and unfortunately, disregard what you're hearing from Secretary Kennedy and many of his politicalappointees who continue to provide mis and disinformation to confuse the public," he said.
The op-ed comes about a month after seven former directors and two former acting directors of the CDCwrote an op-ed for The New York Times, accusing Kennedy of endangering the health of Americans.
