WASHINGTON — A gunman fired a barrage of hundreds of bullets, striking at least six buildings at the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month, killing one police officer and terrorizing the federal health professionals who have been under rhetorical fire from conspiracy mongers and from the highest levels of the Republican Party, including the president and now-Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., since the COVID-19 pandemic.
The attack — carried out by a 30-year-old man who lived not far from the sprawling CDC campus and who authorities and his father say falsely believed the COVID-19 vaccine had made him deathly ill — confirmed the worst fears of many of the medical professionals who work daily to shield the U.S. from deadly and debilitating diseases: They were under siege, unsafe and endangered by the ill-informed and incorrect rhetoric of Kennedy and his ilk.
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