WASHINGTON — Fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez accused her ex-boss, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., of demanding she pre-approve changes to vaccine recommendations — and rebuking her for taking her concerns to Congress.

Monarez, 50, who was dismissed Aug. 27 after fewer than four weeks on the job, claimed that Kennedy, 71, had instructed her two days earlier to rubber-stamp recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) — whose membership RFK Jr. had dismissed and replaced with his own picks in June.

“He [Kennedy] directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation, regardless of the scientific evidence,” Monarez told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and

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