Bad Ignorant Kennedy continues to sabotage US health care.

Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was ousted Wednesday, weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency, according to multiple administration officials familiar with the matter.

Monarez was pressed for days by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., administration lawyers and other officials over whether she would support rescinding certain approvals for coronavirus vaccines, according to two people with knowledge of those conversations. Kennedy and other officials questioned Monarez Monday on whether she was aligned with the administration’s efforts to change vaccine policy, the people said.

Efforts to sabotage vaccine policy.

Monarez, who was a longtime federal government scientist before President Donald Trump nominated her to lead the CDC, declined to commit to support changing coronavirus vaccine policy without consulting her advisers, two people said. That prompted Kennedy to urge her to resign for “not supporting President Trump’s agenda,” one of the people said.

Monarez declined to immediately resign and enlisted Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), chairman of the Senate’s health committee who cast a pivotal vote for Kennedy’s confirmation after securing commitments to protect vaccines, said three people with knowledge of those conversations. Cassidy privately pushed back on Kennedy’s demands, the people said, further angering Kennedy, who lambasted Monarez for involving the senator.

Hey, Junior, allow me to lambaste you for having the arrogance and conceit to think you know more about medical issues than people with actual education in the subject. You are neither a scientist nor a doctor so why do you think you know better?

Public health advocates had hoped Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist, would be a check on Kennedy, the founder of an anti-vaccine organization who they feared would limit access to vaccines in his post as the nation’s top health official. 

It’s great that we have to seek out people who might be a check on the bozo officially in charge of public health. It’s great that he was appointed despite being a complete amateur and an obstinate ignorant fool.