Gray Delany was pushed out due to disagreements with other top officials over how the Department of Health and Human Services makes its announcements, according to Endpoints News.
Gray Delany, the head of the Department of Health and Human Services’ and President Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, has been fired.
Delany had reportedly butted heads with other officials at the agency about how announcements are made, which led to his termination, according to a Friday report from Endpoints News, citing an anonymous source familiar with the matter.
Delany’s firing came just days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. axed 22 mRNA vaccine contracts under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), claiming that “the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu,” though he did not provide evidence to support this.
The canceled contracts are together worth $500 million, according to the HHS announcement.
While Delany did not have a problem with the termination of these mRNA contracts—in an X post, he said Kennedy displayed “remarkable courage” in terminating the contracts—he did seem to take issue with how it was rolled out.
“It was an amazing 52 days,” Delany wrote on his X post, adding that he is “proud of the work I did to defend, justify and amplify” Kennedy’s decisions to end the HHS funding for mRNA projects.
https://www.biospace.com/policy/head-maha-implementor-fired-after-rfk-jr-s-mrna-purge
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