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Susan Monarez, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was fired Wednesday, declined to dismiss her leadership team and approve vaccine recommendations from a panel selected by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former acting CDC director said.

Monarez, who was sworn into the role in July, had two lines she wouldn’t cross when she stepped into the position, Dr. Richard Besser, the chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said Thursday. He said he spoke with her Wednesday afternoon.

Monarez said she wouldn’t do anything illegal or anything that defied science, Besser said. “She said she was asked to do both of those,” Besser, a former acting CDC director in the Obama administration, said.

Lawyers for Monarez said Wednesday that she declined to “rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directors and fire dedicated health experts.”

“Science and integrity can never be compromised,” her lawyers Mark Zaid and Abbe Lowell said Wednesday evening.

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