The health secretary is one of the country's most prominent vaccine skeptics and has previously labeled the agency as a "cesspool of corruption."

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters,

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,” authorities said.

Following the deadly shooting outside the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Friday, some workers are now calling for better protections. One police officer was killed when a gunman with anti-vaccine views opened fire.

Posts are claiming police identified the shooter who killed an officer near the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia as Silas Kruger. But investigators named 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White from nearby Kennesaw as the suspect and said he died in the attack;