For many Americans, the Trump administration's firing of the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is about the clash between establishment science and the anti-vaccination movement fronted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. But for President Donald Trump, who has embraced the vaccine skepticism of his MAGA base while touting the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines under his first-term Operation Warp Speed program, the fight over Susan Monarez is mostly about stamping out dissent.

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