Former CDC Director Susan Monarez told a senate committee Wednesday that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disparaged Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees, including calling the agency the most corrupt in the world and saying employees’ actions killed children.

Calling Kennedy’s assertions “particularly hurtful and disparaging,” she testified that the secretary called the CDC “the most corrupt federal agency in the world,” said agency employees “were horrible people,” alleging they killed children. He also said they were “bought by the pharmaceutical industry,” she recalled.

“And the one I think that hurt me the most was a particularly vivid phrase. He said during the COVID outbreak, CDC told hospitals to turn away sick COVID patients until they ha

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