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The expert panel was recently reconstituted by Mr. Kennedy with new members who have questioned the safety of vaccines. 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Kennedy reconstituted ACIP with members questioning vaccine safety

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The committee is scheduled to meet again on Sept. 18 and 19, and may consider recommendations for a wide array of vaccines, including those for hepatitis B, Covid and respiratory syncytial virus, as w... 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: ACIP will meet September 18 and 19 to consider vaccine recommendations

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In addition to firing top C.D.C. leaders, Mr. Kennedy insisted that Dr. Monarez agree to accept whatever recommendations were made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Policy, they said. 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Kennedy insisted Monarez accept ACIP recommendations

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“I don’t know who’s in charge, honestly, and that’s frightening because the No. 1 thing you need is somebody in charge,” he added. 0.500

👤 Adm. Brett Giroir 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Brett Giroir said it is frightening because nobody is in charge

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“I think this is quite a negative and potentially catastrophic step for the country,” said Adm. Brett Giroir, a pediatrician who helped lead the response to the coronavirus pandemic during Mr. Trump’s... 0.500

👤 Adm. Brett Giroir 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Brett Giroir said the CDC situation is a negative and potentially catastrophic step for the country

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Public health leaders said the health of all Americans was at stake. 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Public health leaders said the health of all Americans was at stake

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They said they fear the United States will be unable to handle a future pandemic or other health crisis. 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Public health leaders fear the US will be unable to handle a future pandemic

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“There’s a lot of trouble at C.D.C., and it’s going to require getting rid of some people over the long term in order for us to change the institutional culture,” he said. 0.500

👤 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Kennedy said CDC needs to get rid of people to change its culture

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A new chief operating officer was installed. 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: A new chief operating officer was installed at the CDC

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And Mr. Kennedy, who had tried unsuccessfully to fire Dr. Monarez himself, fumed at a news briefing in Texas that the C.D.C. — an agency he has previously described as “a cesspool of corruption” — nee... 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Kennedy said the CDC needed an overhaul at a Texas news briefing

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Three other high-ranking officials, who had resigned in support of the director on Wednesday, were escorted out of the agency’s Atlanta headquarters. 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Three officials resigned in support of Monarez were escorted out of CDC headquarters

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Dr. Monarez, who had been sworn in just one month earlier, had lost access to her agency email. 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Monarez sworn in one month earlier lost access to agency email

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They said she had chosen “protecting the public over serving a political agenda.” 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Monarez chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda

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Lawyers for Dr. Monarez insisted that, because she had been confirmed by the Senate and served at the pleasure of the president, she would leave only if Mr. Trump personally instructed her to do so. 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Monarez's lawyers said she would leave only if Trump personally instructed her

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The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said earlier in the day that Mr. Trump had fired Dr. Monarez. 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Karoline Leavitt said Trump fired Monarez

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But late Thursday night, Mr. Kennedy sent an email to C.D.C. employees saying he had installed his deputy, Jim O’Neill, a former biotechnology executive, as the agency’s acting director. 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Kennedy installed Jim O'Neill as CDC's acting director via email

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Top officials have quit, Dr. Monarez’s future is in doubt and President Trump has yet to publicly back his health secretary. 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Top officials quit Monarez's future is in doubt Trump has not backed his health secretary

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Dr. Monarez’s refusal to do so led to an extraordinary standoff on Thursday that paralyzed the nation’s health agency, which is still reeling from mass layoffs and a shooting this month that killed a... 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Monarez's refusal led to a standoff paralyzing the CDC reeling from layoffs and a shooting

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She needed to fire career agency officials and commit to backing his advisers if they recommended restricting access to proven vaccines — or risk being fired herself, according to people familiar with... 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Susan Monarez needed to fire officials back Kennedy's advisers or risk being fired

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. summoned Susan Monarez, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to his office in Washington earlier this week to deliver an ultimatum. 0.500

👤 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli, Christina Jewett 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Robert F Kennedy Jr summoned Susan Monarez to his Washington office earlier this week to deliver an ultimatum

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