The public health official appointed by President Joe Biden to advise on how to curb the monkeypox outbreak is not a 'satanist.' He is a public health advocate and expert on health issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community.
If Your Time is short Dr. Demetre Daskalakis is a Harvard-educated public health advocate and an expert in LGBTQ health issues whose career in medicine spans more than 20 years. Daskalakis shared pictures of himself on Instagram wearing a leather harness in the design of a pentagram.
Multiple social media posts are claiming President Joe Biden appointed a devil-worshiping"satanist" to help lead the nation’s response to the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as monkeypox response deputy coordinator. Daskalakis is a public health advocate and expert on health issues affecting the LGBTQ community. Conservative commentators and news sites then published several photos of Daskalakis wearing a leather harness and various apparel displaying a pentacle symbol, as well as a tattoo he has bearing the same symbol., published Sept. 8. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. Daskalakis confronted the allegation in a Sept. 9 interview with The Advocate, a magazine covering LGBTQ issues and news.




