The former director of the Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Susan Monarez, who was fired by the Trump administration last week, wrote on Thursday that he was allowed to refuse to pressurize for “compromise”.
Monarez revealed the details about its high-profile termination in an op-ed of Thursday The Wall Street JournalHe gave Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy served as the director of the agency for just 29 days before Junior, he fired him over a conflict related to the vaccine policy.
“During my first week as a director of CDC, a gunman set fire to our Atlanta headquarters on 8 August,” she wrote. “As soon as we started recovering, I was facing another challenge – pressure to compromise with science.”
In the OP-Aid, Monarez said that his former boss refused to follow some “disturbing instructions” from Kennedy to resign in a stressful meeting on 25 August or pressurize him to “terminate the face”.
One of the instructions, he wrote, “The vaccine advisory panel was to remove the recommendations of people filled with new people who have publicly expressed antivasin rhetoric.”
Kennedy, a long time the vaccine skeptical, has overhale the country’s vaccine policy in seven months, as he was confirmed as the leader of HHS, through divisive moves, to cancel the MRNA vaccine development related grants and over $ 500 million in contracts, for the CDCs for the CDCs.
On Thursday, Kennedy will testify before the Senate Finance Committee, where he would face Monarez firing and many CDC officials who resigned in protest. Even Republican has said that Kennedy needs to answer difficult questions about the agency’s status.
In June, he removed all 17 members of the major independent advisory panel who helps the government to make vaccine recommendations, which the Advisory Committee called the vaccination practices (ACIP). He quickly replaced the panel with eight new members, some of which have expressed the vaccine doubt.
The Secretary now plans to nominate seven new advisors in the Scientific Committee. the new York Times.
Monarez wrote that it is “compulsory” that the recommendations of the panel are not rubber-stamps, but “the facts may still prevail” to ensure “to ensure” accepted or rejected has been strictly and scientifically reviewed before it is accepted or rejected.
He said, “People trying to reduce the vaccine use a familiar playbook: infamous research weakens advisory committees, and using the results manipulated to highlight those safety that generations of families have trusted to keep deadly diseases in the Gulf,” he wrote.
“Once reliable experts are removed and the advisory bodies are piled up, the results are predetermined. This is not improvement. It is sabotage.”
