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Formaldehyde…old school solution. Not sure how that would work on modern and seals and such.
RFK Jr.’s war on mRNA vaccines breeds distrust, threatens Canada’s access to development: Experts
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Nicole Ireland
Published Aug 08, 2025 • 1 minute read
Canadian doctors and scientists say Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s defunding of mRNA vaccine development projects will have negative health effects in Canada and around the world.
University of Saskatchewan virologist Angela Rasmussen says unlike other vaccines, mRNA vaccines can be made very quickly and easily modified to fight new viruses and adapt to changing strains.
Rasmussen and other medical experts say that ability is critical as the world prepares for H5N1 bird flu as a possible next pandemic.
Canada Research Chair in Viral Pandemics Matthew Miller says the U.S. is one of the largest funders of medical research in the world and defunding mRNA vaccine research will likely stall development and threaten Canada’s access to vital vaccine technology.
Calgary pediatric infectious diseases specialist Dr. Cora Constantinescu says Kennedy’s false claims that mRNA vaccines are unsafe and ineffective will cause a “vaccine confidence crisis” on both sides of the border.
She says that disinformation can also affect people’s views of non-mRNA vaccines — something that’s especially dangerous right now when both Canada and the U.S. are seeing outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.
On Aug. 5, Kennedy announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was halting funding for 22 mRNA vaccine projects worth nearly US$500 million.
In May, Kennedy cancelled funding for Moderna’s development of a pandemic influenza vaccine. A spokesperson for Moderna Canada said in an email Thursday that the company is “continuing to explore alternatives for advancing our H5N1 program, consistent with our global commitment to pandemic preparedness.”
Both Pfizer Canada and Moderna Canada confirmed to The Canadian Press on Thursday that the U.S. backing away from mRNA vaccines should not affect availability of their updated COVID-19 vaccines in Canada this fall.
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Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Nicole Ireland
Published Aug 08, 2025 • 1 minute read
Canadian doctors and scientists say Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s defunding of mRNA vaccine development projects will have negative health effects in Canada and around the world.
University of Saskatchewan virologist Angela Rasmussen says unlike other vaccines, mRNA vaccines can be made very quickly and easily modified to fight new viruses and adapt to changing strains.
Rasmussen and other medical experts say that ability is critical as the world prepares for H5N1 bird flu as a possible next pandemic.
Canada Research Chair in Viral Pandemics Matthew Miller says the U.S. is one of the largest funders of medical research in the world and defunding mRNA vaccine research will likely stall development and threaten Canada’s access to vital vaccine technology.
Calgary pediatric infectious diseases specialist Dr. Cora Constantinescu says Kennedy’s false claims that mRNA vaccines are unsafe and ineffective will cause a “vaccine confidence crisis” on both sides of the border.
She says that disinformation can also affect people’s views of non-mRNA vaccines — something that’s especially dangerous right now when both Canada and the U.S. are seeing outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.
On Aug. 5, Kennedy announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was halting funding for 22 mRNA vaccine projects worth nearly US$500 million.
In May, Kennedy cancelled funding for Moderna’s development of a pandemic influenza vaccine. A spokesperson for Moderna Canada said in an email Thursday that the company is “continuing to explore alternatives for advancing our H5N1 program, consistent with our global commitment to pandemic preparedness.”
Both Pfizer Canada and Moderna Canada confirmed to The Canadian Press on Thursday that the U.S. backing away from mRNA vaccines should not affect availability of their updated COVID-19 vaccines in Canada this fall.
RFK Jr.’s war on mRNA vaccines breeds distrust, threatens Canada’s access to development: Experts
Canadian doctors say Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine development projects will have negative health effects in Canada.
CDC shooter believed COVID vaccine made him suicidal, his father tells police
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Jeff Amy
Published Aug 09, 2025 • Last updated 13 hours ago • 4 minute read
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A bullet hole is visible in the door of a CVS pharmacy on Saturday, August 9, 2025, near where police say a man was shooting at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta Photo by Jeff Amy /AP
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man who opened fire on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, shooting dozens of rounds into the sprawling complex and killing a police officer, had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Saturday.
The 30-year-old shooter also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire late Friday afternoon, the official said. He was armed with five firearms, including at least one long gun, the official said, speaking condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.
DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was mortally wounded while responding to the shooting.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., whose skepticism of vaccine safety has been a cornerstone of his career, voiced support for CDC employees Saturday. But some laid-off CDC employees said Kennedy shares responsibility for the violence and called on him to resign.
CDC shooter identified
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation named Patrick Joseph White as the shooter, but authorities haven’t said whether he was killed by police or killed himself.
The suspect’s father contacted police and identified his son as the possible shooter, the law enforcement official told AP. The father said his son had been upset over the death of the son’s dog, and had also become fixated on the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the official. The family lives in Kennesaw, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb about 25 miles (40 kilometres) northwest of CDC headquarters.
A voicemail left at a phone number listed publicly for White’s family wasn’t immediately returned Saturday morning.
Employees at the CDC are shaken
The shooting left gaping bullet holes in windows across the CDC campus, where thousands work on critical disease research. Employees huddled under lockdown for hours while investigators gathered evidence. Staff was encouraged to work from home Monday or take leave.
At least four CDC buildings were hit, Director Susan Monarez said on X.
Sam Atkins, who lives in Stone Mountain, said outside the CVS pharmacy on Saturday that gun violence feels like “a fact of life” now. “This is an everyday thing that happens here in Georgia.”
Kennedy reaches out to staff
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic shooting at CDC’s Atlanta campus that took the life of officer David Rose,” Kennedy said Saturday. “We know how shaken our public health colleagues feel today. No one should face violence while working to protect the health of others.”
Some rejected the expressions of solidarity Kennedy made in a “Dear colleagues” email, and called for his resignation.
“Kennedy is directly responsible for the villainization of CDC’s workforce through his continuous lies about science and vaccine safety, which have fueled a climate of hostility and mistrust,” said Fired but Fighting, a group of laid-off employees pushing back against changes to the CDC by President Donald Trump’s administration .
The group also called for the resignation of Russell Vought, pointing to a video recorded before Trump appointed him Office of Management and Budget director with orders to dismantle much of the federal government.
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought said in the video, obtained by ProPublica and the research group Documented. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down.”
A request for comment from Vought’s agency was not immediately returned.
Fired workers blame the Trump administration
CDC workers already faced uncertain futures due to funding cuts, layoffs and political disputes over their agency’s mission. “Save the CDC” signs are common in some Atlanta-area neighbourhoods.
This shooting was the “physical embodiment of the narrative that has taken over, attacking science, and attacking our federal workers,” said Sarah Boim, a former CDC communications staffer who was fired this year during a wave of terminations.
Flowers are seen below a handwritten sign outside the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) Global Headquarters following a shooting that left two dead, on August 9, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. On August 8, a gunman opened fire near the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control, killing a DeKalb County Police Department officer before being found dead by gunfire. Photo by Elijah Nouvelage /Getty Images
A distrust of COVID-19 vaccines
A neighbour of White told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that White spoke with her multiple times about his distrust of COVID-19 vaccines.
Nancy Hoalst, who lives in same cul-de-sac as White’s family, said he seemed like a good guy” while doing yard work and walking dogs for neighbours, but would bring up vaccines even in unrelated conversations.
“He was very unsettled and he very deeply believed that vaccines hurt him and were hurting other people.” Hoalst told the Atlanta newspaper. “He emphatically believed that.”
But Hoalst said she never believed White would be violent: “I had no idea he thought he would take it out on the CDC.”
Slain officer leaves wife and 3 kids
“This evening, there is a wife without a husband. There are three children, one unborn, without a father,” DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson said.
Rose, 33, was a former Marine who served in Afghanistan, graduated from the police academy in March and “quickly earned the respect of his colleagues for his dedication, courage and professionalism,” DeKalb County said.
Sam Atkins, who lives in Stone Mountain, said outside the CVS on Saturday that gun violence feels like “a fact of life” now. “This is an everyday thing that happens here in Georgia.”
Growing security concerns
Senior CDC leadership told some staff Saturday that they would do a full security assessment following the shooting, according to a conference call recording obtained by AP.
One staffer said people felt like “sitting ducks” Friday. Another asked whether administrators had spoken with Kennedy and if they could speak to “the misinformation, the disinformation” that “caused this issue.” Leadership said they are speaking with Kennedy’s office but didn’t say what Kennedy would do.
It’s clear CDC leaders fear employees could continue to be targeted. In a Saturday email to employees obtained by AP, CDC’s security office asked employees to scrape old CDC parking decals off their vehicles. The security office said decals haven’t been required for some time.
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Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Jeff Amy
Published Aug 09, 2025 • Last updated 13 hours ago • 4 minute read
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A bullet hole is visible in the door of a CVS pharmacy on Saturday, August 9, 2025, near where police say a man was shooting at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta Photo by Jeff Amy /AP
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man who opened fire on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, shooting dozens of rounds into the sprawling complex and killing a police officer, had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Saturday.
The 30-year-old shooter also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire late Friday afternoon, the official said. He was armed with five firearms, including at least one long gun, the official said, speaking condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.
DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was mortally wounded while responding to the shooting.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., whose skepticism of vaccine safety has been a cornerstone of his career, voiced support for CDC employees Saturday. But some laid-off CDC employees said Kennedy shares responsibility for the violence and called on him to resign.
CDC shooter identified
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation named Patrick Joseph White as the shooter, but authorities haven’t said whether he was killed by police or killed himself.
The suspect’s father contacted police and identified his son as the possible shooter, the law enforcement official told AP. The father said his son had been upset over the death of the son’s dog, and had also become fixated on the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the official. The family lives in Kennesaw, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb about 25 miles (40 kilometres) northwest of CDC headquarters.
A voicemail left at a phone number listed publicly for White’s family wasn’t immediately returned Saturday morning.
Employees at the CDC are shaken
The shooting left gaping bullet holes in windows across the CDC campus, where thousands work on critical disease research. Employees huddled under lockdown for hours while investigators gathered evidence. Staff was encouraged to work from home Monday or take leave.
At least four CDC buildings were hit, Director Susan Monarez said on X.
Sam Atkins, who lives in Stone Mountain, said outside the CVS pharmacy on Saturday that gun violence feels like “a fact of life” now. “This is an everyday thing that happens here in Georgia.”
Kennedy reaches out to staff
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic shooting at CDC’s Atlanta campus that took the life of officer David Rose,” Kennedy said Saturday. “We know how shaken our public health colleagues feel today. No one should face violence while working to protect the health of others.”
Some rejected the expressions of solidarity Kennedy made in a “Dear colleagues” email, and called for his resignation.
“Kennedy is directly responsible for the villainization of CDC’s workforce through his continuous lies about science and vaccine safety, which have fueled a climate of hostility and mistrust,” said Fired but Fighting, a group of laid-off employees pushing back against changes to the CDC by President Donald Trump’s administration .
The group also called for the resignation of Russell Vought, pointing to a video recorded before Trump appointed him Office of Management and Budget director with orders to dismantle much of the federal government.
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought said in the video, obtained by ProPublica and the research group Documented. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down.”
A request for comment from Vought’s agency was not immediately returned.
Fired workers blame the Trump administration
CDC workers already faced uncertain futures due to funding cuts, layoffs and political disputes over their agency’s mission. “Save the CDC” signs are common in some Atlanta-area neighbourhoods.
This shooting was the “physical embodiment of the narrative that has taken over, attacking science, and attacking our federal workers,” said Sarah Boim, a former CDC communications staffer who was fired this year during a wave of terminations.
Flowers are seen below a handwritten sign outside the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) Global Headquarters following a shooting that left two dead, on August 9, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. On August 8, a gunman opened fire near the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control, killing a DeKalb County Police Department officer before being found dead by gunfire. Photo by Elijah Nouvelage /Getty Images
A distrust of COVID-19 vaccines
A neighbour of White told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that White spoke with her multiple times about his distrust of COVID-19 vaccines.
Nancy Hoalst, who lives in same cul-de-sac as White’s family, said he seemed like a good guy” while doing yard work and walking dogs for neighbours, but would bring up vaccines even in unrelated conversations.
“He was very unsettled and he very deeply believed that vaccines hurt him and were hurting other people.” Hoalst told the Atlanta newspaper. “He emphatically believed that.”
But Hoalst said she never believed White would be violent: “I had no idea he thought he would take it out on the CDC.”
Slain officer leaves wife and 3 kids
“This evening, there is a wife without a husband. There are three children, one unborn, without a father,” DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson said.
Rose, 33, was a former Marine who served in Afghanistan, graduated from the police academy in March and “quickly earned the respect of his colleagues for his dedication, courage and professionalism,” DeKalb County said.
Sam Atkins, who lives in Stone Mountain, said outside the CVS on Saturday that gun violence feels like “a fact of life” now. “This is an everyday thing that happens here in Georgia.”
Growing security concerns
Senior CDC leadership told some staff Saturday that they would do a full security assessment following the shooting, according to a conference call recording obtained by AP.
One staffer said people felt like “sitting ducks” Friday. Another asked whether administrators had spoken with Kennedy and if they could speak to “the misinformation, the disinformation” that “caused this issue.” Leadership said they are speaking with Kennedy’s office but didn’t say what Kennedy would do.
It’s clear CDC leaders fear employees could continue to be targeted. In a Saturday email to employees obtained by AP, CDC’s security office asked employees to scrape old CDC parking decals off their vehicles. The security office said decals haven’t been required for some time.
CDC shooter believed COVID vaccine made him suicidal, his father tells police
DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was mortally wounded while responding to the shooting.
Translation: We can make more money faster selling a cure to a disease we invented as long as the taxpayer keeps writing cheques.
CSA pushes for mandatory masking in all health settings
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Aug 12, 2025 • Last updated 22 hours ago • 3 minute read
Wear a mask every time you visit your doctor or a hospital? That’s a recommendation soon to come from the Canadian Standards Association.
Are you ready to wear a mask every time you visit your doctor or go to a hospital? That’s a recommendation soon to come from the Canadian Standards Association backed by several activist groups.
The CSA is conducting public consultations on the issue until Aug. 19.
The proposal would be that patients, staff and medical personnel would be required to wear an N95 respirator mask – not those little blue surgical masks – at all times. Part of the proposal would exempt some areas of a hospital; for example, if it was just in use by administrators and not open to patients.
The activists backing this, though, believe that isn’t good enough and want the exempt areas limited or done away with all together.
The idea is likely to gain support from some groups but don’t expect everyone in the medical community to be on board even though supporters claim this idea is backed by the best science. One specialist in the infectious disease area reached out to express their opposition, adding many doctors don’t like this.
“It has caused massive waves in the infection control community because even they think it’s ridiculous,” the doctor said.
Thankfully, for those who believe in sanity, pronouncements from the CSA aren’t binding on hospitals or doctors’ offices. The CSA is a private organization and while a recommendation from the organization can carry some weight, it’s not backed up by law.
“There are no plans to adopt or implement such a requirement in Ontario,” said Jackson Jacobs, a spokesperson for Health Minister Sylvia Jones.
Alberta’s health ministry also has no plans to make masks mandatory.
“At this time, decisions regarding mask use will continue to be guided by site-level leadership, provincial health agencies, and operational teams based on local context and clinical judgment,” a spokesperson for the province’s Ministry of Primary and Preventative Health Services.
Masks have become very political since the COVID-19 pandemic.
We all know those people, on both sides of the divide, who can’t let go of those dark days. For many it has resulted in not being able to function in public without wearing a mask.
You can see these people walking along the street, through parks or driving their car all alone with a mask on. It’s more of a security blanket and a political statement than a medical device.
Still, supporters are dressing this idea up as settled science. An international coalition of highly political doctors calling themselves The World Health Network has been organizing a campaign to support making this measure mandatory.
“The World Health Network (WHN) supports the draft CSA Z94.4-25 standard, which establishes a science-based framework for the selection, use, and care of respirators across workplaces, including health care,” the WHN statement reads.
Let’s be clear, the WHN believes that wearing N95 masks all day everyday should extend to other workplaces as well, but they are adamant in their support of a CSA guideline calling for mandatory use in health settings.
“It establishes that all health-care workers must wear respirators (minimum PL1) in health-care facilities and during delivery of care, except in designated low-risk zones determined by qualified airborne transmission risk assessment,” their statement reads.
One of the backers of the WHN is a Calgary-area doctor named Joe Vipond. If that name rings a bell it’s because during the pandemic, Vipond was a strong critic of the Kenney government, supported every stronger lockdowns and opposed any easing of restrictions. He was highly visible in the media without ever exposing his strong NDP ties, including nearly $20,000 in donations to the Alberta NDP.
Now, he and his official sounding group want the CSA to recommend mandatory N95 masks in all health settings and then for governments to use their legal and regulatory authority to make that a reality.
There are people who need to wear masks for health reasons; there is no medical basis for me to wear a mask for a doctor’s appointment or in-patient service in a hospital. There is no need for nurses, doctors and support staff to be forced to wear these devices over a gruelling shift.
Let’s hope medical officials and provincial health authorities take a pass on this idea.
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Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Aug 12, 2025 • Last updated 22 hours ago • 3 minute read
Wear a mask every time you visit your doctor or a hospital? That’s a recommendation soon to come from the Canadian Standards Association.
Are you ready to wear a mask every time you visit your doctor or go to a hospital? That’s a recommendation soon to come from the Canadian Standards Association backed by several activist groups.
The CSA is conducting public consultations on the issue until Aug. 19.
The proposal would be that patients, staff and medical personnel would be required to wear an N95 respirator mask – not those little blue surgical masks – at all times. Part of the proposal would exempt some areas of a hospital; for example, if it was just in use by administrators and not open to patients.
The activists backing this, though, believe that isn’t good enough and want the exempt areas limited or done away with all together.
The idea is likely to gain support from some groups but don’t expect everyone in the medical community to be on board even though supporters claim this idea is backed by the best science. One specialist in the infectious disease area reached out to express their opposition, adding many doctors don’t like this.
“It has caused massive waves in the infection control community because even they think it’s ridiculous,” the doctor said.
Thankfully, for those who believe in sanity, pronouncements from the CSA aren’t binding on hospitals or doctors’ offices. The CSA is a private organization and while a recommendation from the organization can carry some weight, it’s not backed up by law.
“There are no plans to adopt or implement such a requirement in Ontario,” said Jackson Jacobs, a spokesperson for Health Minister Sylvia Jones.
Alberta’s health ministry also has no plans to make masks mandatory.
“At this time, decisions regarding mask use will continue to be guided by site-level leadership, provincial health agencies, and operational teams based on local context and clinical judgment,” a spokesperson for the province’s Ministry of Primary and Preventative Health Services.
Masks have become very political since the COVID-19 pandemic.
We all know those people, on both sides of the divide, who can’t let go of those dark days. For many it has resulted in not being able to function in public without wearing a mask.
You can see these people walking along the street, through parks or driving their car all alone with a mask on. It’s more of a security blanket and a political statement than a medical device.
Still, supporters are dressing this idea up as settled science. An international coalition of highly political doctors calling themselves The World Health Network has been organizing a campaign to support making this measure mandatory.
“The World Health Network (WHN) supports the draft CSA Z94.4-25 standard, which establishes a science-based framework for the selection, use, and care of respirators across workplaces, including health care,” the WHN statement reads.
Let’s be clear, the WHN believes that wearing N95 masks all day everyday should extend to other workplaces as well, but they are adamant in their support of a CSA guideline calling for mandatory use in health settings.
“It establishes that all health-care workers must wear respirators (minimum PL1) in health-care facilities and during delivery of care, except in designated low-risk zones determined by qualified airborne transmission risk assessment,” their statement reads.
One of the backers of the WHN is a Calgary-area doctor named Joe Vipond. If that name rings a bell it’s because during the pandemic, Vipond was a strong critic of the Kenney government, supported every stronger lockdowns and opposed any easing of restrictions. He was highly visible in the media without ever exposing his strong NDP ties, including nearly $20,000 in donations to the Alberta NDP.
Now, he and his official sounding group want the CSA to recommend mandatory N95 masks in all health settings and then for governments to use their legal and regulatory authority to make that a reality.
There are people who need to wear masks for health reasons; there is no medical basis for me to wear a mask for a doctor’s appointment or in-patient service in a hospital. There is no need for nurses, doctors and support staff to be forced to wear these devices over a gruelling shift.
Let’s hope medical officials and provincial health authorities take a pass on this idea.
Experts & Advisors Team - WHN
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CSA Z94.4-25 is a draft national standard proposing science-based airborne protection measures, including universal respirator use in healthcare. While broadly welcomed, it has also drawn a petition in opposition. WHN supports the standard and rejects the petition’s claims. Canada’s national...
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LILLEY: CSA pushes for mandatory masking in all health settings
Wear a mask every time you visit your doctor or a hospital? That’s a recommendation soon to come from the Canadian Standards Association.
Gunman attacked CDC headquarters to protest COVID-19 vaccines
Patrick Joseph White, 30, died at the scene Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing a police officer
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Charlotte Kramon And Jeff Martin
Published Aug 12, 2025 • Last updated 15 hours ago • 3 minute read
Patrick Joseph White.
This photo provided by Georgia Bureau of Investigations Patrick Joseph White. Photo by Georgia Bureau of Investigations /AP
ATLANTA — The man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broke into a locked safe to get his father’s weapons and wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines, authorities said Tuesday.
Documents found in a search of the home where Patrick Joseph White lived with his parents “expressed the shooter’s discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said.
White, 30, had written about wanting to make “the public aware of his discontent with the vaccine,” Hosey said.
White also had recently verbalized thoughts of suicide, which led to law enforcement being contacted several weeks before the shooting, Hosey said. He died at the scene Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing a police officer.
Asked about threats based on misinformation regarding the CDC and its vaccine work, FBI Special Agent Paul Brown said Tuesday: “We’ve not seen an uptick, although any rhetoric that suggests or leads to violence is something we take very seriously.”
“Although we are tracking it, we are sensitive to it, we have not seen that uptick,” said Brown, who leads the FBI’s Atlanta division.
The suspect’s family was fully cooperating with the investigation, authorities said at the Tuesday news briefing. White had no known criminal history, Hosey said.
Executing a search warrant at the family’s home in the Atlanta suburb of Kennesaw, authorities recovered written documents that are being analyzed, and seized electronic devices that are undergoing a forensic examination, the agency said.
Investigators also recovered a total of five firearms, including a gun that belonged to his father that he used in the attack, Hosey said.
Hosey said the suspect did not have a key to the gun safe: “He broke into it,” he said.
White had been stopped by CDC security guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street, where he opened fire from a sidewalk, authorities said. The bullets pierced “blast-resistant” windows across the campus, pinning employees down during the barrage. More than 500 shell casings have been recovered from the crime scene, the GBI said.
In the aftermath, officials at the CDC are assessing the security of the campus and making sure they notify officials of any new threats.
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. toured the CDC campus on Monday, accompanied by Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill and CDC Director Susan Monarez, according to a health agency statement.
“No one should face violence while working to protect the health of others,” Kennedy said in a statement Saturday. It said top federal health officials are “actively supporting CDC staff.”
Kennedy also visited the DeKalb County Police Department, and later met privately with the slain officer’s wife.
A photo of the suspect will be released later Tuesday, Hosey said, but he encouraged the public to remember the face of the officer instead.
Kennedy was a leader in a national anti-vaccine movement before President Donald Trump selected him to oversee federal health agencies, and has made false and misleading statements about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 shots and other vaccines.
Some unionized CDC employees called for more protections. Some employees who recently left the agency as the Trump administration pursues widespread layoffs, meanwhile, squarely blamed Kennedy.
Years of false rhetoric about vaccines and public health was bound to “take a toll on people’s mental health,” and “leads to violence,” said Tim Young, a CDC employee who retired in April.
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Patrick Joseph White, 30, died at the scene Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing a police officer
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Charlotte Kramon And Jeff Martin
Published Aug 12, 2025 • Last updated 15 hours ago • 3 minute read
Patrick Joseph White.
This photo provided by Georgia Bureau of Investigations Patrick Joseph White. Photo by Georgia Bureau of Investigations /AP
ATLANTA — The man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broke into a locked safe to get his father’s weapons and wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines, authorities said Tuesday.
Documents found in a search of the home where Patrick Joseph White lived with his parents “expressed the shooter’s discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said.
White, 30, had written about wanting to make “the public aware of his discontent with the vaccine,” Hosey said.
White also had recently verbalized thoughts of suicide, which led to law enforcement being contacted several weeks before the shooting, Hosey said. He died at the scene Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing a police officer.
Asked about threats based on misinformation regarding the CDC and its vaccine work, FBI Special Agent Paul Brown said Tuesday: “We’ve not seen an uptick, although any rhetoric that suggests or leads to violence is something we take very seriously.”
“Although we are tracking it, we are sensitive to it, we have not seen that uptick,” said Brown, who leads the FBI’s Atlanta division.
The suspect’s family was fully cooperating with the investigation, authorities said at the Tuesday news briefing. White had no known criminal history, Hosey said.
Executing a search warrant at the family’s home in the Atlanta suburb of Kennesaw, authorities recovered written documents that are being analyzed, and seized electronic devices that are undergoing a forensic examination, the agency said.
Investigators also recovered a total of five firearms, including a gun that belonged to his father that he used in the attack, Hosey said.
Hosey said the suspect did not have a key to the gun safe: “He broke into it,” he said.
White had been stopped by CDC security guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street, where he opened fire from a sidewalk, authorities said. The bullets pierced “blast-resistant” windows across the campus, pinning employees down during the barrage. More than 500 shell casings have been recovered from the crime scene, the GBI said.
In the aftermath, officials at the CDC are assessing the security of the campus and making sure they notify officials of any new threats.
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. toured the CDC campus on Monday, accompanied by Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill and CDC Director Susan Monarez, according to a health agency statement.
“No one should face violence while working to protect the health of others,” Kennedy said in a statement Saturday. It said top federal health officials are “actively supporting CDC staff.”
Kennedy also visited the DeKalb County Police Department, and later met privately with the slain officer’s wife.
A photo of the suspect will be released later Tuesday, Hosey said, but he encouraged the public to remember the face of the officer instead.
Kennedy was a leader in a national anti-vaccine movement before President Donald Trump selected him to oversee federal health agencies, and has made false and misleading statements about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 shots and other vaccines.
Some unionized CDC employees called for more protections. Some employees who recently left the agency as the Trump administration pursues widespread layoffs, meanwhile, squarely blamed Kennedy.
Years of false rhetoric about vaccines and public health was bound to “take a toll on people’s mental health,” and “leads to violence,” said Tim Young, a CDC employee who retired in April.
Gunman attacked CDC headquarters to protest COVID-19 vaccines
Patrick Joseph White, 30, died at the scene Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing a police officer.