{"id":16694,"date":"2025-12-14T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rfk-jr-has-turnedthe-cdc-into-a-zombie-organization\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:20:17","slug":"rfk-jr-has-turnedthe-cdc-into-a-zombie-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rfk-jr-has-turnedthe-cdc-into-a-zombie-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. has turnedthe\u202fCDC into \u2018a zombie organization\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In less than a year, Kennedy, who has made baseless claims about the dangers posed by vaccines for decades, turned the CDC, once considered the global &ldquo;gold standard&rdquo; of public health agencies, into what Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/healthcare\/5646842-rfk-kennedy-cdc-zombie-organization\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In less than a year, Kennedy, who has made baseless claims about the dangers posed by vaccines for decades, turned the CDC, once considered the global &ldquo;gold standard&rdquo; of public health agencies, into what Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}