CDC Head Ousted

RFK Jr. bashes CDC after firing of director, resignation of key leaders​

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Fox News the CDC is “in trouble,” [sure is!] as CDC employees worried he would further undermine vaccine access.

Ousted question mark?

Showdown at CDC as director refuses to leave post, amid pressure from Trump administration​

Monarez's lawyers again pushed back, arguing that because Monarez was appointed by President Donald Trump to the post -- the first CDC director to go through a Senate confirmation process -- Trump had to personally dismiss her.

"For this reason, we reject the notification Dr. Monarez has received as legally deficient and she remains as CDC Director. We have notified the White House Counsel of our position," Zaid and Lowell said in a statement.

"When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted," Monarez's lawyers Mark Zaid and Abbe Lowell said in a statement.

The showdown began as a disagreement over demands from Kennedy and Stefanie Spear, his principal deputy chief of staff, for Monarez to support changes to COVID vaccine policy and the firings of high-level staff, a source familiar with the conversations told ABC News, which Monarez would not commit to.

9 Ex-CDC Chiefs Sound Alarm on RFK Jr.’s Leadership in Scathing NY Times Op-Ed: ‘Endangering Every American’s Health’​

Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spanning administrations from President Jimmy Carter to President Donald Trump, joined forces to warn Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “endangering every American’s health” in a scathing takedown of his actions.

In a joint New York Times op-ed, the former officials wrote that Kennedy’s actions are “unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced.”

Their alarm follows the abrupt firing of CDC director Dr. Susan Monarez.

“When Secretary Kennedy administered the oath of office to Dr. Monarez on July 31, he called her ‘a public health expert with unimpeachable scientific credentials,’” the officials wrote. “But when she refused weeks later to rubber-stamp his dangerous and unfounded vaccine recommendations or heed his demand to fire senior C.D.C. staff members, he decided she was expendable.”

“None of us would have agreed to the secretary’s demands, and we applaud Dr. Monarez for standing up for the agency and the health of our communities,” they added.

essentialsaltes said:

But when she refused weeks later to rubber-stamp his dangerous and unfounded vaccine recommendations ...

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I wonder if those "dangerous and unfounded vaccine recommendations" are those that are mostly in line with what most of the rest of the world recommends for annual COVID vaccines.