Former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Susan Monarez, who was fired last week by the Trump administration, wrote Thursday that she was let go after refusing to give in to pressure to “compromise science itself.”

Monarez revealed details about her high-profile termination in a Thursday op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal. She served as the agency’s director for just 29 days before Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired her over a clash related to vaccine policy.

“During my first week as CDC director, a gunman opened fire on our Atlanta headquarters on Aug. 8,” she wrote. “Just as we began to recover, I was confronted with another challenge—pressure to compromise science itself.”

In the op-ed, Monarez said her former boss pr

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