Susan Monarez was only weeks into her job as CDC director when she was fired on Wednesday – the White House saying she was not aligned with President Donald Trump’s mission to Make America Healthy Again. [Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe]
But it was a clash with Trump’s Secretary for Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, that sealed her fate.
A former colleague, who spoke to Monarez on Wednesday, said RFK Jr had asked her to cross her two red lines – to act illegally, by firing officials without cause – and to act unscientifically, by endorsing recommendations on vaccines that she didn’t believe were based on evidence.
RFK Jr has long been a critic of widespread vaccinations. This week, the US Food and Drug Administration, now headed by a RFK Jr ally, issued revised guidelines targeting the latest Covid-19 vaccines: now recommended only for those over 65, or with certain pre-existing medical conditions – instead of the previous yearly jab, for children as young as six months and up.
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