Schwartz, Kaufman face Senate vaccine questions: Key takeaways

The fates of two prime well being officers — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Susan Monarez — loomed over a Wednesday Senate listening to, although neither of them was within the room.

Nearly a 12 months after Kennedy ousted Monarez as director of the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention over vaccine coverage, senators pressed the administration’s new decide to run the CDC on whether or not she’d face an identical destiny, and the way she’d take care of what lots of them characterised as Kennedy’s political interference within the company. 

The nominee, Erica Schwartz, repeatedly demurred on the query, by no means fairly saying whether or not she would stand as much as the well being secretary.