{"id":143769,"date":"2025-09-17T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143769\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:50:08","slug":"susan-monarez-to-tell-senate-how-rfk-jr-fired-her-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143769\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Monarez to tell Senate how RFK Jr fired her – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘You resisted firing people who think the Covid vaccine should be at six months’published at 16:13 BST<\/p>\n

16:13 BST<\/p>\n

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\n You can watch some of this exchange in the video carousel at the top of the page<\/p>\n

Monarez is now being questioned by Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky. <\/p>\n

Paul asks her first about Covid vaccines: “Does the Covid vaccine reduce transmission?”<\/p>\n

Monarez says it can, as it reduces “viral load”.<\/p>\n

Paul then asks if the Covid vaccine reduces hospitalisation for children under 18.<\/p>\n

“It can,” Monarez replies.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t,” Paul says.<\/p>\n

Paul then asks if the Covid vaccine reduces the rate of death for children under 18.<\/p>\n

“It can,” Monarez replies.<\/p>\n

“That’s a ridiculous answer – no it doesn’t,” says Paul, before claiming that statistics show no benefit for children.<\/p>\n

“You resisted firing people who have this idea that the Covid vaccine should be at six months,” Paul says. “That’s what this is about.”<\/p>\n

Monarez says that is not “commensurate” with her experience.<\/p>\n

Paul then asks her why the Hepatitis B vaccine is given to newborns if the mother is not infected with the virus. <\/p>\n

He argues there should be changes to childhood vaccine schedules.<\/p>\n

“What is the medical, scientific reason and proof for giving a Hepatitis B vaccine to a newborn?” he asks. “The burden is upon you, and the people you wouldn’t fire, to prove to us that we need to give our six-month-old a Covid vaccine, and we need to give our one-day-old a Hepatitis vaccine.”<\/p>\n

Monarez responds by saying she agrees, but she would’t “pre-commit to approving all the ACIP recommendations without the science”.<\/p>\n

“Untrue,” Paul claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘You resisted firing people who think the Covid vaccine should be at six months’published at 16:13 BST 16:13…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-143769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}