{"id":22006,"date":"2025-09-17T20:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=22006"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:32:20","slug":"former-c-d-c-head-says-kennedy-is-risking-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=22006","title":{"rendered":"Former C.D.C. Head Says Kennedy Is Risking Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Former C.D.C. Head Says Kennedy Is Risking Public Health<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Former C.D.C. Head Says Kennedy Is Risking Public Health<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ousted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told a Senate committee that she was fired for \u201cholding the line on scientific integrity.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cI could have kept the office, the title, but I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: my integrity.\u201d \u201cYou agree that \u2014 you support every child needs every vaccine that\u2019s on the C.D.C. recommendations, all 70 to 80 jabs? Do you believe any or all of those should be mandated?\u201d \u201cC.D.C. does not mandate vaccines. What C.D.C. does is provide the evidence associated with the recommendations, so that a parent and a physician can make the best determination for them.\u201d \u201cUnacceptably, we now have an H.H.S. secretary who does not believe in established scientists \u2014 science \u2014 and who listens to conspiracy theorists and ideologues rather than doctors and medical professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Former C.D.C. Head Says Kennedy Is Risking Public Health transcript Back transcript Former C.D.C. Head Says Kennedy Is Risking Public Health Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ousted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told a Senate committee that she was fired for \u201cholding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[11656,37,4818,177,13489],"class_list":{"0":"post-22006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-c-d-c","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-kennedy","11":"tag-public","12":"tag-risking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}