The White House announced Wednesday night that it had removed the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez, for not aligning with the president's agenda. In an email, a spokesman for Donald Trump, Kush Desai, said that Monarez "is not aligned with the president's agenda of Making America Healthy Again" and therefore, "the White House has removed Monarez from her position with the CDC," according to the report. The New York Times.

Vaccines are one of the greatest success stories in history, but the fact that they are a tool of preventive medicine and are administered before there is a disease in order to avoid it (the individual is healthy) becomes an argument for the most reluctant population and, above all, for antivaccinationists. Moreover, as with all drugs, there is the possibility that those vaccinated may suffer some adverse effects, and these risk figures, which are anecdotal compared to the benefits, are often taken out of context and used as a deterrent to vaccination. In fact, in recent months a multitude of false anti-vaccine messages have been circulating on social media to discourage covid-19 vaccination. 

Some say that the virus does not exist and that the pandemic is a conspiracy to dominate the population. Others, on Telegram channels with more than a hundred thousand followers, say that for decades the elites have wanted to turn a virus into "a biological weapon to cleanse" the world and that the authorities are taking advantage of the "pandemic" by subduing the population with masks, curfews and vaccinations. But in recent months, against the backdrop of the mass vaccination campaign, the messages of people who have not previously been sceptical have also become more radical, especially about vaccines: they believe that they intentionally cause serious side effects or that they will control our brains "with 5G". Most of those who defend these ideas are denialists and anti-vaccine, but now because of the exceptional situation caused by covid there is also a confused or skeptical population that reproduces them, intentionally or not. They have different ideologies and come from different social classes, but they have one thing in common: they distrust governments and official sources.