Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) immunizations chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis has told ABC News that he and other CDC officials resigned last week over concerns about the direction the agency is headed.

The accusations come on the heels of the White House firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez last Wednesday following disagreements with Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy.

Daskalakis who had served as the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and was formerly the Biden administration’s monkeypox advisor, criticized Kennedy’s leadership of HHS and the CDC.

In his resignation letter, Daskalakis wrote, “I may be wrong, but based on what I’m seeing, based on what I’ve heard with the new members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, or ACIP, they’re really moving in an ideological direction where they want to see the undoing of vaccination.”

Daskalakis also condemned Kennedy’s push for reform and accountability at the CDC saying, “I didn’t think that we were going to be able to present science in a way free of ideology, that the firewall between science and ideology is completely broken down.”

However, Daskalakis’ tenure at the CDC has been notable for its lack of separation between ideology and science as evidenced by his LGBT activism during a monkeypox outbreak and use of woke language throughout his tenure at the CDC.

In his resignation letter, Daskalakis refers to pregnant women as “pregnant people” and includes his preferred pronouns even as he accuses Sec. Kennedy of “moving in an ideological direction.”

Daskalakis also engaged in LGBT activism while he served as the Deputy Coordinator of the White House National Monkeypox Response team under the Biden administration during an outbreak in 2022.

At that time, Daskalakis refused to address the outbreak in terms of its association with risky sexual behaviors, recommending instead that health officials focus on getting the word out, “in a way that supports people’s joy,” quickly adding that, “one person’s idea of risk is another person’s idea of a great festival or Friday night.”

This is what passes for ideology-free public health science, is it any wonder that public trust in the CDC has faltered?