New York – Friday, the man who attacked the CDC seat in Atlanta fired more than 180 shots on the campus and broke around 150 windows, with balls piercing the “explosion resistant” windows and splashes with glass shards in many parts, according to information circulating internally at the agency.
It can take weeks or even months to replace windows and clean up damage, said staff of the disease control and prevention centers.
A man of Georgia who had blamed the COVVI-19 vaccine for having depressed him and suicidal opened fire on Friday evening, killing a police officer. No one at the CDC was injured.
The shooter was arrested by CDC security guards before going to a nearby pharmacy and opened fire on Friday afternoon, AP said a law enforcement manager. The manager was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke under the cover of anonymity. The 30 -year -old man, Patrick Joseph White, died later, but the authorities did not say if he had been killed by the police or committed suicide.
American health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did a tour on the CDC campus on Monday. CDC Security underlined the broken windows in several buildings, including the main guard stand, according to a declaration from the Ministry of American Health and Social Services.
HHS deputy secretary, Jim O’Neill, and CDC director Susan Monarez accompanied him, according to the press release.
Kennedy also visited the dekalb county police service, where he met the police chief. Later. He also met in private the widow of the fell, David Rose.
Monarez published a declaration on social networks on Friday evening which indicated that at least four CDC buildings had been affected in the attack.
The magnitude of damage has become clearer at a CDC leadership meeting on weekends. Two CDC employees who were informed of what was discussed at the meeting described the details of the Associated Press subject to anonymity because they were not allowed to reveal the information. The details also appeared in an agency note seen by an AP journalist.
Building 21, which houses the Monarez office, was struck by the greatest number of bullets. CDC officials did not say if his office had been affected.
CDC employees were invited to work at home this week.
Kennedy made a statement on Saturday that said that “no one should face violence while working to protect the health of others” and that the best federal health officials “actively support the CDC staff.”
He did not speak to the media during his visit on Monday.
A CDC retired official Stephan Monroe said he was worried about the long -term impact that the attack on the will of young scientists to go to work for the government.
“I fear that it is a generational success,” said Monroe, addressing a journalist near the corner where a poster had been installed in honor of Rose.
Kennedy was a leader of a national anti-vaccine movement before President Donald Trump selects him to supervise federal health agencies, and made false misleading declarations on the safety and efficiency of approximately COVVI-19 plans and other vaccines.
Years of false rhetoric on vaccines and public health had to “wreak havoc on the mental health of people” and “leads to violence,” said Tim Young, a CDC employee who retired in April.
Dr. Jerome Adams, the American general surgeon during the first administration of President Donald Trump, said on Sunday that health leaders should appreciate the weight of their words.
“We have to understand that people listen to,” Adams told “Face The Nation” on CBS. “When you make complaints that have been proven repeatedly on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, this can cause unforeseen consequences.”
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Journalists AP Alanna Durkin Richer and Charlotte Kramon contributed to this report.
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