WASHINGTON — During a highly anticipated hearing with fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville alluded that Monarez should have followed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s orders.

The former director offered a competing account to Kennedy’s on what led to her ouster.

After just 29 days on the job, Monarez was fired in August from her post leading the top U.S. public health agency after clashing with Kennedy because she refused to change vaccine recommendations without evidence and refused to fire workers without cause, she testified in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Wednesday.

“Even under pressure, I could not replace evidence with ideology or compromise my integrity,” Monarez told committ

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