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前卫生局局长杰罗姆·亚当斯周日表示，总统特朗普提名领导美国疾病控制与预防中心的埃丽卡·施瓦茨医生是“绝佳人选”，但如果获得参议院确认，她可能会面临来自“反疫苗”态度的罗伯特·F·肯尼迪领导的卫生与公众服务部的压力。
亚当斯在特朗普第一任期内担任该局局长。施瓦茨在此期间曾是亚当斯的副手卫生局局长。
亚当斯在《与玛格丽特·布伦南会面》节目中表示，民调显示“如果共和党继续推动反疫苗议程，他们将在中期选举中付出代价”，但施瓦茨“客观上是本届政府迄今为止提名的最合格的卫生官员”。
施瓦茨毕业于布朗大学医学院，拥有马里兰大学法学学位。她还曾在美国公共卫生服务 commissioned 军团服役24年。目前，施瓦茨担任该机构卫生、安全与工作生活主管，负责监管数十个海岸警卫队设施。
亚当斯表示，他对施瓦茨资质的乐观态度“伴随着对疾控中心和卫生与公众服务部内部环境的审慎警惕”。疾控中心前主任苏珊·莫纳雷斯在与肯尼迪发生冲突后，仅上任几周就被解职。其他多名疾控中心高级官员也已辞职，理由是与特朗普政府在疫苗政策以及该机构“将公共卫生武器化”问题上存在分歧。
“过往经验表明，如果她获得确认，在这个充满反疫苗态度的卫生与公众服务部，她将面临真正的压力，不得不为意识形态而非证据行事，”亚当斯说。
亚当斯提及了莫纳雷斯的离职，以及代理疾控中心主任杰伊·巴塔查里亚医生近期推迟发布一份每周发病率和死亡率报告的决定。亚当斯称，该报告显示，今年冬季新冠疫苗降低了健康成年人的急诊就诊率。亚当斯表示，在参议院确认程序中，施瓦茨也“显然会在疫苗问题上与罗伯特·F·肯尼迪正面交锋”。
亚当斯称，提名施瓦茨的背景是有报道称，白宫已要求肯尼迪在中期选举前“停止发表针对疫苗的负面言论”。亚当斯指出，肯尼迪在近期众议院作证时曾宣誓承认，疫苗本可以挽救去年死于德克萨斯州麻疹的一名儿童的生命。
“这是他迄今为止对麻疹疫苗最明确的支持表态，”亚当斯说。尽管这一回答“有保留且态度缓和”，但亚当斯警告称，在麻疹病例上升、疫苗接种率下降、可预防疫情暴发以及其他公共卫生担忧加剧的背景下，这仍可能“传递出混乱的信号”。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/ex-surgeon-general-says-cdc-director-nominee-will-be-under-pressure-to-follow-rfk-on-vaccines/
Trump’s new pick for CDC leader may face “threat to follow ideology over evidence,” former surgeon general warns
April 19, 2026 / 12:58 PM EDT / CBS News
Dr. Erica Schwartz, President Trump’s new nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is a “home run pick” but may face pressure from the “vaccine-skeptical” Robert F. Kennedy’s Health and Human Services Department if confirmed to the role, former Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Sunday.
Adams was Mr. Trump’s Surgeon General during his first term in office. During that time, Schwartz was Adams’ deputy Surgeon General.
Polls suggested “that Republicans were going to pay in the midterm election if they continued on an anti-vaccine push,” Adams said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan”, but Schwartz is “objectively the most qualified health nominee we’ve seen from this administration so far.”
Schwartz is a graduate of Brown University’s medical school and holds a law degree from the University of Maryland. She also spent 24 years in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Currently, Schwartz oversees dozens of Coast Guard facilities as the agency’s director of health, safety and work-life.
Dr. Erica Schwartz. U.S. Coast Guard
Adams said his optimism about Schwartz’s qualifications came “with a health dose of caution about the environment” at the CDC and HHS. The previous CDC director, Susan Monarez, was ousted from the role just weeks after her confirmation following clashes with Kennedy. Several other top CDC officials have also resigned, citing disagreements with the Trump administration over its vaccine policy and “the weaponization of public health” at the agency.
“Recent history tells us if she’s confirmed, she will be under real threat to follow ideology over evidence in what is a vaccine-skeptical HHS,” Adams said.
Adams highlighted Monarez’s departure and acting CDC director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s recent decision to hold back a weekly morbidity and mortality report that Adams described as showing COVID-19 vaccines reduced emergency room visits in health adults this winter. Adams said that Schwartz will also “clearly be pitted against RFK on vaccines” during the Senate confirmation process.
Adams said that the choice to nominate Schwartz comes amid reports that the White House has asked Kennedy to “stop talking negatively about vaccines” ahead of the midterm elections. Adams pointed to recent House testimony where Kennedy acknowledged, under oath, that vaccination could have saved the life of a child who died of measles in Texas last year.
“These statements represent his strongest possible endorsement of the measles vaccine to date,” Adams said. While the answer was “qualified and tempered,” Adams warned it still risked “sending mixed messages” amid rising measles cases, falling vaccination rates, preventable outbreaks and other public health concerns.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/ex-surgeon-general-says-cdc-director-nominee-will-be-under-pressure-to-follow-rfk-on-vaccines/
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