Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., condemning last week’s deadly shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, said the centers’ scientists should never be targets of violence. 

“They work in silence, saving us all and protecting our health,” Kennedy told Scripps News on Monday. “They should not be the targets of this kind of violence from anybody.” 

The shooter, identified as Patrick Joseph White, 30, of Kennesaw, Georgia, blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal, according to authorities. 

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