{"id":6925,"date":"2025-09-17T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/monarez-senate-takeaways-rfk-political-influence-cdc-vaccines\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:02:21","slug":"monarez-senate-takeaways-rfk-political-influence-cdc-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/monarez-senate-takeaways-rfk-political-influence-cdc-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"3 key takeaways from the Senate hearing on CDC director\u2019s firing and RFK Jr.\u2019s vaccine agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    3 key takeaways from the Senate hearing on CDC director\u2019s firing and RFK Jr.\u2019s vaccine agenda<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cradical transparency\u201d and \u201cgold-standard\u201d science he promised senators, and risk making the nation sicker, not healthier, they said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/17\/monarez-senate-takeaways-rfk-political-influence-cdc-vaccines\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Daniel Payne and Isabella Cueto<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/17\/monarez-senate-takeaways-rfk-political-influence-cdc-vaccines\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 key takeaways from the Senate hearing on CDC director\u2019s firing and RFK Jr.\u2019s vaccine agenda WASHINGTON \u2014 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.\u00a0 Former CDC Director Susan Monarez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,2158,1428,2147,2151,2144,2180,2149,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-6925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-congress","category-health","category-hhs","category-policy","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}