Demeter Daskalakis left the CDC to fight RFK Jr. Did he make the right choice?

At the end of August 2025, Demetre Daskalakis, senior immunization official at the CDC, submitted his letter of resignation. He was tired of seeing the national vaccination system collapse around him. That evening, he entered his eighth-floor office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to collect memories of a decades-long career in public health.