""One of the troubling directives from that meeting more than a week ago: I was told to preapprove the recommendations of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric," she wrote."
""I did not say that to her," Kennedy told Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon. "I never had a private meeting with her. Other witnesses to every meeting that we have, and all those witnesses will say, I never said that." "So she's lying today to the American people in the Wall Street Journal?" Wyden asked. "Yes, sir," Kennedy said."
""I told her I didn't want her to have a rule that she's not going to sign onto it," Kennedy said when asked whether he told Monarez to accept the recommendations."
Susan Monarez said Kennedy pressured her to resign or face termination and said she was told to preapprove recommendations from a vaccine advisory panel populated with individuals who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric. Monarez left the CDC less than a month after Senate confirmation. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied pressuring Monarez, said he never had a private meeting with her, and said he did not demand that she accept panel recommendations without further CDC scientific review. Kennedy said he asked Monarez to resign after she said she was not a trustworthy person. Kennedy previously replaced every member of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices.
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