3 key takeaways from the Senate hearing on CDC director’s firing and RFK Jr.’s vaccine agenda
WASHINGTON — A Wednesday Senate hearing aimed to answer questions about the exodus of top leaders from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month. Instead, it raised a host of new ones.
Former CDC Director Susan Monarez and former Chief Medical Officer Debra Houry detailed how health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. muzzled their agency, expanded the roles of political appointees, and pushed ideas without scientific backing. All were a departure from the “radical transparency” and “gold-standard” science he promised senators, and risk making the nation sicker, not healthier, they said.
Daniel Payne and Isabella Cueto
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