The official science of the CDC exploded from the Trump era had heat for the politicized Monkeypox response

Demeter Daskalakis, an official of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has resigned this week, saying that the policies of the Trump administration ignore science. However, his own leadership when MonkeyPox’s Biden -era’s response was criticized for putting optics on public health.

In the midst of the efforts of the Trump administration to eliminate the director of the CDC, Susan Monarez, a handful of other senior CDC officials, including Daskalakis, resigned to protest against the policies of the Trump administration. Daskalakis wrote in his resignation letter which was published on social networks that the health policies presented by secretary Robert F. Kennedy “do not reflect scientific reality”. He also accused the Trump administration of having tried to “erase transgender populations”, while using the term “pregnant people” to describe women who are about to give birth.

But the flashback around 2022 and 2023, after the Monkeypox virus spread in several countries and has come in the United States, during which Daskalakis was among the main advisers of the Biden administration who directed the national response to the epidemic of diseases.

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Government communications of this period, discovered by the group of guard dog Surveillance project, Show that civil servants knew that the disease spread among the gay community. However, these communications and other files show that the administration seemed more concerned with the protection of stigma targeting the gay community, than the implementation measures that would provide the best attenuation response.

Demeter Daskalakis speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on September 7, 2022 in Washington, DC (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

“A common theme was public health officials identifying locations where epidemics took place, to include baths and saunas,” according to the surveillance project. “Managers have never approached the closure of these locations.

In 2023, after the monkeypox epidemic took root in the United States, Daskalakis continued National television has made the country known that its team “took place (they) passed the word in a way that supports the joy of people, rather than calling them risky”.

“You know, the idea of ​​a person’s risk, is the idea of ​​another person of a big festival or Friday evening, by the way. So, we have to somehow kiss this with joy and make sure that people know how to keep themselves safe,” added the coordinator of Biden Monkeypox.

During the MonkeyPox epidemic between 2022 and 2023, public health officials launched a deployment of large -scale vaccine to try to stop the spread. (Reuters / Dado Ruvic / Illustration)

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Meanwhile, during the epidemic, Daskalkis published a tweet From Gay Sex App Grindr who said that “Dr. Daskalakis could give me a blow any day”, with a flattened cat sticker.

In other publications on social networks almost at the same time, Daskalkis can be seen using male models carrying leather bondage straps for make your entry during a summit on HIV prevention.

Daskalakis speaks to journalists from the daily press point of the White House on September 7, 2022. He resigned from his post to the CDC this week for dissatisfaction with the Trump administration. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

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While in his role in the White House leading Monkeypox’s response, Daskalkis also would have Directed an MST screening operation from a sex club after working hours in New York. Asked about the operation in an interview, Daskalakis describe Like “exciting” and added that there was “not much sleep time”. Later in the interview, he added: “I was already in a way the doctor of HIV Bathhouse.”

Fox News Digital contacted Daskalakis about the juxtaposition between his criticisms of Kennedy’s policies not reflecting “scientific reality” and his role in the approach of the Biden administration towards Monkeypox, but did not receive an immediate response.