Naturally, some have taken to blaming vaccine misinformation/disinformation for a lunatic opening fire on the CDC headquarters and killing a cop.
Last week, a Georgia man named Patrick Joseph White, 30, opened fire on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
White wound up killing one police officer and then later killing himself by suicide, according to NBC News.
#BREAKING: We’ve just received this photo of Joseph Patrick White, the suspected CDC shooter accused of firing 500 rounds and killing a DeKalb County police officer: https://t.co/wayY1sUMKc pic.twitter.com/wHCmOoc5wn
— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) August 12, 2025
Chris Hosey, the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, revealed on Tuesday that a search of White’s home turned up documents that “expressed the shooter’s discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations.”
He’d also reportedly written about wanting to make “the public aware of his discontent with the vaccine.”
These facts have sparked an outcry from some who now want to revive the witch hunts of the COVID era.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) union released a statement demanding CDC and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials issue a statement of their own with “a clear and unequivocal stance … condemning vaccine disinformation.”
“Their leadership is critical in reinforcing public trust and ensuring that accurate, science-based information prevails,” the statement reads. “This condemnation is necessary to help prevent violence against scientists that may be incited by such disinformation.”
Even former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who served in Trump’s first administration, echoed this sentiment.
“This tragedy is not an isolated event,” he wrote in an op-ed for Stat. “It is a dire reflection of ever-escalating threats public health workers face in a climate increasingly shaped by misinformation, politicization, and inflammatory rhetoric.”
The tragic CDC shooting in Atlanta, where Officer David Rose lost his life, highlights the rising threat to public health workers fueled by anti-vaccine rhetoric. We must act to protect those who keep us safe. Read more: https://t.co/zCcnPko5og
— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) August 10, 2025
Adams also took a shot at HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“[I]t took more than 18 hours for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to issue a public statement condemning the violent act,” Adams wrote.
“In that time, I personally heard directly from CDC employees — already demoralized by DOGE-led budget and staffing cuts — who felt abandoned by the very leadership meant to defend them,” he added.
Some of these CDC employees later took their gripes to the Washington Post, which published a record of them on Tuesday.
“They said they are fed up with how they and their work are being derided and impugned by conservatives and anti-vaccine activists, including the one who rose to lead the nation’s public health apparatus: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” the report reads.
“Now the nation’s top health official, Kennedy has moved to limit the use of coronavirus vaccines, fired the CDC’s vaccine advisers and last week canceled research into the mRNA technology that made those vaccines’ rapid development possible,” the report continues.
And all this has evidently upset the entrenched leftist bureaucrats who still remain at HHS, not to mention the rest of the federal government.
RFK Jr. has addressed the CDC shooting.
“I come from a family that lost two of its members to political violence and it’s always wrong.”
“Part of my job is to make sure that we protect our employees and keep them safe and allow them to do their critical work.”
“My message… pic.twitter.com/EtpUqCcpgy
— End Tribalism in Politics (@EndTribalism) August 12, 2025
These same rogue employees reportedly protested outside the CDC’s Atlanta headquarters when RFK visited on Monday.
“I have never worked on anything nefarious,” leftist CDC scientist and protester Lauren Owens told the Post. “We are public servants.”
She reportedly held up a sign during the protest that read, “RFK Jr’s lies about vax safety + CDC scientists endanger us ALL.”
It’s not clear why she hasn’t been fired yet.
“There is a direct line from the vilification of CDC during Covid and the deliberate lies and mis/disinformation that continues today,” another CDC employee, described as a “veteran official,” said anonymously.
“Many of the sources of these lies now have a pulpit and the veneer of respectability through their positions in the administration,” the leftist added.
It’s also not clear why they haven’t been fired yet.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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