Susan Monarez, the candidate of President Donald Trump, to be the director of the centers for the control and prevention of diseases
Washington – Members of the US Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions urged President Donald Trump’s candidates to lead the centers for the control and prevention of diseases on Wednesday after the secretary of the health and human service had released members of a critical vaccine committee this month.
Trump’s election, former actor CDC director Susan Monarez, said she trusted vaccines when she defended the HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this month as part of a vaccine-skeptic agenda. Fire all 17 members of the advisory committee for immunization practices or acip and recommend eight novel members.
“Part of the secretary vision in the restoration of public trust is to ensure that the American people can be sure of how evidence and science are promoting decision -making,” she told the senators.
The seven members of the committee – one who was canceled this week – will meet on Wednesday and Thursday to check data and coordinate with novel vaccine recommendations. The recommendations have a significant weight because insurers and federal health programs such as Medicaid exploit them to determine whether shots are covered and schools for immunization mandates are dependent on them.
Cassidy questions
Louisiana’s senator, Bill Cassidy, the chairman of the committee, said that he was concerned about ACIP, especially as a non-CDC employee, the committee should keep a presentation on Thimerosal, a preservative based on Mercury. It is expected that the committee is right about the approval of flu photos that contain the connection.
Lyn Redwood, the former head of the child health defense, the anti-Accycine group founded by Kennedy, gives the presentation argued that thimerosal causes autism. Show your own research results of the CDC This thimerosal does not cause autism.
Cassidy said that Monarez had no part of the ACIP meeting this week or on the agenda, he said: “If the ACIP hearing is used today to sow distrust, I would ask you to make sure that there would really be a balanced perspective.”
“Yes, someone can speak as a critic, but there should be someone who checks the overwhelming evidence of the safety of vaccines,” said Cassidy, the doctor.
Monarez, who was the agency’s acting director from January to March, said that she trusted vaccines and that immunization is essential to save life.
If Monarez is confirmed by the Senate, she would be the first director of the CDC without a medical conclusion in almost 70 years. She has a ph .d. in microbiology and immunology.
Further concerns about the vaccine panel
Cassidy was not the only Republican on the committee that had taken care of the discharge of all ACIP members.
Alaska’s Republican senator, Lisa Murkowski, said she was concerned about the background of the seven novel discussion participants.
“I would hope that one of the things they would all investigate make sure that these people look at science before them and leave their political prejudices at home,” said Murkowski.
Democratic Sens. Patty Murray from Washington State and Angela Sobrooks from Maryland also urged Monarez about Kennedy’s actions to release everyone on the panel.
Murray asked Monarez whether the novel members of the committee voted not to recommend vaccines whether to listen to this recommendation.
Monarez described the question and said that the roles at ACIP were arduous to fill and the members would have to pass an ethics process.
“If you have not gone through ethics approval process, you shouldn’t take part in the meetings,” she said.
So Brooks asked Monarez if she believed that the 17 -fired members had no qualifications.
Monarez did not answer the question, but said that Kennedy’s reasoning for “resetting the ACIP to a new cohort would be on the way to restoring public trust”.
Granting of funds and layoffs
The senators also expressed concerns about the scholarships that had been canceled, even though the congress already approved the funds.
Maine GOP Senator Susan Collins, Chair of the Senate Committee on Means, said that her state is suffering from a high level of Lyme Borreliosis, and as a result, a vaccine at a research institute in Maine is in the works.
“This vaccine is very promising and I would like to make sure that it can continue his conclusion,” said Collins.
Monarez agreed and said that if she is confirmed, she will work specifically to ensure that the financing for this vaccine continues.
“It is ironic that our dogs can get a vaccine to protect them from diseases such as ticks like Lyme-Borreliosis, but we humans cannot and I hope we can fix it,” said Collins.
Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, urged Monarez to remove the Office for Smoking and Health on the CDC. He asked if all employees were filed in April, the month after her compact stay as deputy director.
“I had no participation (in the layoffs) after I went,” she said.
Fluoride in water
So Brooks pressed Monarez about Kennedy’s advance to stop the CDC that low fluoride levels are placed in public drinking water.
Fluoride is added to drinking water to prevent cavities, tooth injuries and other problems with dental health.
So Brooks asked Monarez, who was part of whether the public water supply, which fluoride in Potomac, Maryland, contains, where Monarez lives, is protected to drink.
“I think the water in Potomac, Maryland, is safe,” said Monarez.
