Susan Monarez, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked CDC appointee, was privately assuring health officials that she would reverse her own boss’s directives, according to agency staffers.

A New York Magazine report published Tuesday revealed that the since-fired Monarez urged the CDC’s former chief medical officer, Debra Houry, not to resign after Kennedy, 71, fired all the vaccine experts at the agency.

“Please wait…When I come, I will make changes,” Monarez reportedly promised Houry.

Monarez, a microbiologist who became the first non-physician to lead the agency in its history, made headlines after she was ousted by the health secretary in August—just 29 days after her shaky Senate confirmation, which passed without a single Democrat’s support.

The report, which details the chaos that h

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