Senator Marshall: You Are the Problem
Senator Marshall Questions former CDC Director Susan Monarez at Senate HELP Committee Hearing
Washington – On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), questioned former CDC Director Susan Monarez, Ph.D., during the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing focused on her recent firing.
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Highlights from the hearing include:
On an annual COVID vaccine for children:
Senator Marshall: “Do you believe every child over the age of six months should have a covid vaccine at least annually?”
Dr. Monarez: “I believe that is a discussion that a parent needs to have with their pediatrician, and if it is right for that child based on the risk, then that child should have the opportunity to get the vaccine.”
Senator Marshall: “If there’s reports come out that show that indeed, the COVID vaccination led to the death of children, would that influence your advice?”
Dr. Monarez: “I certainly would want to know about that.”
On the CDC’s current recommended vaccines:
Senator Marshall: “Okay, the CDC currently recommends between 70 and 80 shots over the child’s lifetime. Do you fully support the recommendation that every child needs every vaccine as recommended by the CDC?”
Dr. Monarez: “The data associated with those recommendations has been validated and vetted. That is the current schedule.”
Senator Marshall: “So, you agree that you support every child needs every vaccine that’s on the CDC recommendations, all 70 to 80 jabs?”
Dr. Monarez: “The Childhood vaccine schedule has been vetted and validated through science and evidence that almost 20 different diseases that are mitigated through those vaccines are very important. I think that every parent should have the opportunity to talk to their pediatrician and make sure that they understand the benefits and the risks of those vaccines and what is in the best interest of their children.”
On her role as former CDC Director, in contrast to Secretary Kennedy’s priorities:
Senator Marshall: “Would you agree with me, though, at this point in time, that you’re not the right person for this job? That your belief system of thinking that every child needs every vaccine, which is what your CDC does, that every child needs every vaccine, all 70 to 80 of them, is certainly a different mindset than Secretary Kennedy’s? And that if the university president, I think a great sports analogy, hate to do this, but the university president and the athletic director decide you’re not the right coach for this team, then it’s probably time to say goodbye, and we need a new coach. Would you agree that certainly you’re going in a different direction philosophically than Secretary Kennedy is?”
Dr. Monarez: “So I will stand behind scientific integrity with every decision I ever make. If I am put in a position of having to say, I will cede the scientific integrity to retain my job, then I am not the right person for the position. I believe that we must have science and evidence to support the best decisions for our children and others who would benefit from vaccines.”
Senator Marshall: “Here’s the biggest difference in philosophy that I see: I think the CDC is the cause of vaccine hesitancy, that you are the problem, that because of COVID and you’re forcing these vaccines on people that weren’t ever really proven or justified, that the benefits didn’t outweigh the risk. And you all sat there with your hands in your pockets, and you let that happen, and then you let this hepatitis vaccine be at one day of age, be forced upon everybody and all of a sudden, the moms and the grandmas never trust you, because you’re trying to force a vaccine that’s not necessary at age, at day one … But basically, what the CDC does is act like a mandate, and you force doctors that don’t agree with you to kick patients out of their clinics because they don’t want their child to be exposed to a vaccine that was approved after just like 140 patients took it, being followed up for five days.
“It just makes no sense to me that every person needs every vaccine, but regardless of that, some of the vaccines have done incredible work. They are a miracle. They’ve done a great job with the basic vaccines that we got in the 60s and 70s, polio, MMR, and DTaP; those seem to be great vaccines that have stood the test of time. But your attitude here that every person needs every vaccine is completely contrary to Secretary Kennedy’s philosophy and the mission of the President. Thank you.”
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