WATCH: Former CDC director says RFK Jr. didn’t call her after agency shooting

Former CDC Director Susan Monarez said at a Senate committee hearing Wednesday that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not call her after a gunman opened fire at the agency’s Atlanta headquarters.

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“So are you telling me that the secretary of Health and Human Services failed to even give you a courtesy call upon learning that employees there had been shot at?” Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., asked.

“He did not call me,” Monarez confirmed.

Monarez testified in the hearing Wednesday about the political pressure she says she faced from Kennedy. She says she was fired after she refused to preapprove vaccine recommendations from a CDC panel without seeing scientific evidence. Kennedy has denied these claims and told senators earlier this month that she was lying.

Monarez’s firing led to the resignations of several other top health officials, including former chief medical officer Dr. Debra Houry, who also testified in Wednesday’s hearing.

The hearing comes a day before a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the panel that issues vaccine recommendations. Kennedy, known for his anti-vaccine advocacy, has come under fire for removing all members of the board and replacing them with people who align with his views. The panel is expected to vote on authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines, among others.