""He said that the childhood vaccine schedule would be changing starting in September and I needed to be on board with it," Monarez told the Senate's health committee during testimony about the events leading up to her firing in August. "He did say that he had spoken to the president, he spoke to the president every day about changing the childhood vaccine schedule," she added."
"Monarez said she did not get into "substance" of how Kennedy's handpicked CDC advisory panel would recommend changes. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet on Thursday and Friday to discuss who should get COVID-19, Hepatitis B, MMR vaccines. Monarez said she was fired in part because she refused Kennedy's request to "pre-approve" the advisory panel's changes to vaccine recommendations."
Monarez testified that she was told the childhood vaccine schedule would change starting in September and that she needed to be on board. She reported that Kennedy spoke to the president daily about changing the childhood vaccine schedule. The mechanism for how the schedule would be altered remained unclear. Monarez did not get into the "substance" of how Kennedy's handpicked CDC advisory panel would recommend changes. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet to discuss COVID-19, Hepatitis B, and MMR vaccine recommendations. Monarez said she was partly fired for refusing to "pre-approve" proposed advisory panel changes.
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