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Monarez would not cross ‘red lines’ before she was fired, confidant says

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Monarez won Senate confirmation to lead the CDC less than a month ago, on July 29. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Monarez would not cross ‘red lines’ before she was fired, confidant says

The former CDC director was ousted late Wednesday after refusing to resign under pressure from Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

By Sophie Gardner, Politico 
 

Susan Monarez, the newly ousted director of the CDC, refused to fire top agency leaders and sign off on changes to vaccines from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hand-picked panel of vaccine advisers, according to Richard Besser, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a former acting CDC director.

Besser told reporters at a press conference Thursday that he spoke to Monarez at 1 p.m. Wednesday, hours before HHS posted on the social media site X that she was “no longer director” of the agency. Besser said Monarez was asked to resign but told him she didn’t plan to.

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