Public health officials have a long way to go before they regain the public’s trust, and a regrettable Thursday segment on CNN’s The Source showed just how little some in the industry and in the media care. Amid some weak questioning from host Kaitlan Collins, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who recently resigned as the CDC’s Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, trumpeted his use of the term “pregnant people” and his pronouns.
Collins teed up a clip from the day’s White House press briefing, “Dr. Daskalakis, you were specifically referenced today, during the White House press briefing. I'm not sure if you saw this, but I want—I want everyone to listen to what the press secretary had to say today.”
In the clip, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declared, “One of those individuals wrote in his departure statement that he identifies pregnant women as pregnant people. So that's not someone who we want in this administration, anyway.”
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