Former CDC director Susan Monarez to testify during the hearing of the Senate Committee

Washington – The Senate Committee which oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will hold an audience next week with testimonies from the former CDC director, Susan Monarez, that the Trump administration suddenly dismissed last month after refusing to resign under pressure.

The hearing before the Senate, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, chaired by Bill Cassidy, R-La., Will take place on September 17 and will focus on monitoring the CDC. Dr. Debra Houry, who has resigned from his job as a chief doctor after the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has rejected Monarez, should also testify, according to a spokesman for the committee.

“To protect the health of children, the Americans must know what happened and occur at the CDC,” Cassidy said in a statement on Tuesday evening announcing the hearing. “They must be reassured that their child’s health is a priority. Radical transparency is the only way to do so.”

The advisory committee for vaccination practices should meet the next day, September 18.

In addition to Houry, other resignations of the CDC in the midst of Kennedy’s efforts to reshape the Vaccine Council Committee included those of Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who led the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and Dr Daniel Jernigan, who led the National Center for Emerging Infective Diseases.

Shortly after the ouster of Monarez, Cassidy, a doctor who proceeded to a key vote to confirm Kennedy as a health secretary, warned the advisory panel against the vaccination against meeting until significant surveillance was carried out.

“If the meeting takes place, the recommendations made should be dismissed as lacking in legitimacy given the gravity of allegations and current disorders in the leadership of the CDC.” Cassidy said in a statement last month.

Monarez wrote in an editorial published in the Wall Street Journal shortly before the recent testimony of the Kennedy Congress according to which she was dismissed after refusing her management at a meeting of August 25 for preliminary recommendations to the panel, an assertion that Kennedy rejected when he testified to the Senate funding committee this month.

“It is imperative that the recommendations of the panel are not stamped in rubber but are rather examined rigorously and scientifically before being accepted or rejected,” wrote Monarez.

Kennedy’s hearing included many tense exchanges with Cassidy and the Democrats in the Committee, the secretary defending his position of vaccine against senators who declared that his policies and efforts to raise the skeptics of immunization to demonstrate anti-vaccine biases.

The lawyers of Monarez also criticized Kennedy’s testimony, describing his claims as “false, and sometimes, manifestly ridiculous”, in a statement according to the hearing.

Brennan Leach and Frank Thorp V reported Washington and Zoë Richards from New York.