WASHINGTON — In the days after health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he suggested sweeping changes were needed to reform the agency — and that the ouster was part of his plan.
“The agency is in trouble, and we need to fix it, and we are fixing it,” Kennedy said in a Fox News interview the day after the director was ousted and several high-level officials resigned in protest. “And it may be that some people should not be working there anymore.”
In a Tuesday opinion article in the Wall Street Journal, Kennedy said he had “replaced leaders who resisted reform,” though he didn’t name them. But many of the plans for reform in Kennedy’s article match ideas laid out by the ex-director, Susan Monarez, in a confidential roadmap she submitted to Kennedy’s staff more than a month ago that was obtained by STAT.
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