Fired CDC director Susan Monarez clashed with Kennedy on vaccine policy • FRANCE 24 English

of the genomics era. She was nominated by Donald Trump himself, but after less than a month on the job, the White House says that Susan Manarez has been fired as head of the CDC. In a statement, the administration explained that Manarez was not aligned with the president’s agenda of making America healthy again. The nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy, would only say this about the firing during an appearance on Fox News. the agency is in trouble and we need to fix it and we are fixing it and it may be that some people should not be working there anymore. Uh so if I’m confirmed as a CDC director, Manarez, who testified before the Senate in June, says she was pressured by Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, to change the AY’s vaccine policy. She initially refused to step down and through her lawyers she accused Kennedy of weaponizing public health for political gain and putting millions of American lives at risk. When CDC director Susan Manares refused to rubber stamp unscientific reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that reason, she has been targeted. As the nation’s top health official, Kennedy has effectively done away with an advisory committee that recommends vaccines and revived a task force to scrutinize childhood vaccines, prompting concern from most health experts. In response to Manar’s firing, several other top officials at the CDC resigned, including the AY’s chief medical officer. And all of this follows months of turmoil at the CDC. Its budget has been slashed. Hundreds of employees terminated. And the agency is still reeling after a gunman fired hundreds of rounds at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta earlier this month. Apparently upset about the effects he claims to have suffered as a result of a COVID vaccine.

CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired on August 27 after resisting changes to vaccine policy that were advanced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and that she believed contradicted scientific evidence, a close associate said on August 28.
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