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Vaccine Skeptic Named CDC No. 2

The Wall Street Journal

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November 26, 2025

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appointed Louisiana surgeon general Dr. Ralph Abraham as the second in command, the latest move in a year of upheaval for the agency.

- BY ALYSSA LUKPAT AND JENNIFER CALFAS

Abraham, a vaccine skeptic, has been named the deputy principal director of the CDC. The agency has shuffled through multiple leaders since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also a vaccine skeptic, began overseeing the CDC this year.

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