Susan Monarez testified to the Senate HELP Committee hearing that RFK Jr wanted her to give blanket approvals of all new ACIP recommendations, but offered no data to change the childhood vaccination schedules.
The ACIP supposedly uses objective and evidence-based information to create guidelines for vaccine use in the US population. Still, Kennedy proposed changing guidelines without any proof or scientific data.
Sen. Cassidy asked Monarez pertinent questions that exposed Kennedy for lying to the committee in prior testimonies, while he put the health and safety of this country at risk.
This opening explains much about Kennedy’s incompetence.
MONAREZ: In the first meeting, he asked me to commit to firing scientists or resign. He asked me to pre-commit to signing off in each and one of the forthcoming ACIP recommendations regardless of whether or not there was scientific evidence.
CASSIDY: And what were those recommendations? Did you have a foreshadowing of what they would be?
MONAREZ: I did not. We did not get into any substance about what those.
CASSIDY: He wanted you to approve them?
MONAREZ: He just wanted blanket approval. And if I could not commit to approval of each and every one of the recommendations that would be forthcoming I needed to resign.
I did not resign and that is when he told me he had already spoken to the White House about having me removed.
