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    Trump’s former surgeon general calls for RFK Jr. to be fired   
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   Kaanita Iyer   
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   Dr. Jerome Adams, former surgeon general, testifies during the Select   
   Subcommittee on Coronavirus Crisis hearing on July 1, 2021.   
   Dr. Jerome Adams, former surgeon general, testifies during the Select   
   Subcommittee on Coronavirus Crisis hearing on July 1, 2021.   
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   Jerome Adams, who served as US surgeon general during President Donald   
   Trump’s first administration, is calling for Health and Human Services   
   Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be fired as controversy continues to   
   swirl over his handling of vaccine approvals.   
      
   When asked by CNN’s Victor Blackwell on Saturday if Trump should fire   
   Kennedy, Adams said, “I absolutely believe that he should for the sake of   
   the nation and the sake of his legacy.”   
      
   Adams’ comments come after a contentious hearing on Capitol Hill earlier   
   this week, where Kennedy was grilled by both Democrats and Republicans   
   about his views on vaccines and the recent exodus at the Centers for   
   Disease Control and Prevention, including the resignation of its director,   
   over tighter vaccine policies Kennedy was pushing.   
      
   “I’m deeply concerned about the health and safety of our nation under RFK’s   
   current leadership,” Adams told Blackwell, later adding: “I absolutely   
   believe he is uniquely damaging the credibility of federal agencies like   
   the CDC, (National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration) and   
   he’s putting us at risk.”   
      
   The former surgeon general also raised concerns about Trump’s close   
   relationship with Kennedy, arguing that the president should take charge of   
   health policy.   
      
   “I’m just flabbergasted, to be honest, that he seems to have President   
   Trump in a thrall,” Adams said. “President Trump is clearly the leader on   
   foreign policy, clearly the leader on the economy and tariffs. But when it   
   comes to health he’s doing whatever RFK says.”   
      
   Yet, Adams said he is “hopeful” that Trump will recognize what he described   
   as “the danger” Kennedy poses.   
      
   “I still am hopeful that President Trump will begin to see the danger that   
   is being presented — not just to America, but to his own legacy — by   
   continuing to have RFK in this position, making these horrific decisions,”   
   Adams told Blackwell.   
      
      
   During Thursday’s congressional hearing, Kennedy defended the changes at   
   the CDC, claiming that they “were absolutely necessary adjustments to   
   restore the agency to its role as the world’s gold standard public health   
   agency.”   
      
   When Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren argued that last month’s decision by   
   the FDA — which falls under Kennedy’s purview — is effectively denying some   
   people access to updated Covid-19 vaccines after only approving it for a   
   limited group of people, Kennedy cast doubt on the efficacy of the vaccine.   
      
   “I’m not going to recommend a product for which there’s no clinical data   
   for that indication. Is that what I should be doing?” Kennedy asked Warren.   
      
   Following the hearing, Trump praised Kennedy’s performance, saying that   
   while he didn’t watch the hearing, “I heard he did very well today.”   
      
   But on Friday Trump appeared to distance himself from Florida’s decision to   
   eliminate school vaccine requirements, that all people should get certain   
   vaccines.   
      
   “I think you have to be very careful when you say that some people don’t   
   have to be vaccinated,” he said. “You have vaccines that work, they just   
   pure and simple work. They’re not controversial at all, and I think those   
   vaccines should be used, otherwise some people are going to catch it, and   
   they endanger other people.”   
      
   CNN’s Adam Cancryn contributed to this report.   
      
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