Senator explodes CDC chaos, demands investigation and rejects vaccine guidance

Bipartisan anger is brewing a drama that unfolds at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), with the top members of the Senate medical expert panel forming a unified front in the middle of turmoil.

Chairman of the Senate Healthcare, Education, Labor and Pension Committee Bill CassidyR-la. and the group’s ranking members, senators. Bernie Sandersi-vt. , all first got involved in the sacking of CDC director Susan Monarez, who stimulated a series of departures from the agency.

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Less than a month after the Senate confirmed, Monarez was suddenly fired from her position by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The removal of her attorney rejected appears to stem from a disagreement with HHS secretary’s vaccine Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.vaccine skeptics.

Cassidy is Kennedy’s decision to vote at the confirmation hearing earlier this year.

Monarez has since refused to leave the position, and her lawyers believe she has neither resigned nor fired nor received notice of the president’s removal.

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Getty Image)

A series of senior officials following news of her removal CDC announced their resignations, too, including National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Daniel Jernigan, Chief Medical Officer Debra Houry, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Director Demetre Daskalakis, and Director of Public Health Data, Science, Technology Jennifer Layden.

In response to their resignation, Cassidy asked the federal government’s vaccine advisory group, which had postponed its scheduled meeting in September after recently launching the original group members and after he recently launched the original group members.

His request was Cassidy’s second call to the group to stop the meeting this year, a move that directly lowered Kennedy and the president’s actions. Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Agenda.

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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). (Joe Maher/Getty Images)

Cassidy argued Thursday that “serious allegations about the meeting agenda, membership and lack of scientific processes are being announced in September. [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] Meeting. ”

“These decisions directly affect the health of children and meetings should not occur until a large amount of supervision is conducted,” Cassidy said. “If the proceeds of the meeting, any advice should be rejected because there is a lack of legitimacy given the severity of the allegations and the current turmoil in the CDC leadership.”

Daskalakis posted his reason for resigning on X, accusing him of “unable to serve in an environment that sees the CDC as a tool for developing policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to harm rather than improve public health”.

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Meanwhile, Sanders demanded a congressional investigation into the Trump administration’s decision to fire Monares.

“We need leaders who are committed to improving public health and have the courage to support science, rather than officials who spread false conspiracy theories and false information,” Sanders said Thursday.

HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment about this story.