Susan Monarez made it a little more than three weeks in the top job at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The longtime government scientist was pushed out of the agency on Wednesday, with the Washington Post reporting that her tenure came to an end over disagreements with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccine policy.

The outlet’s sources say that Kennedy pressed Monarez for days about her potential support for limiting the pool of Americans who are eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines. The Post shared that Monarez recruited Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, a former physician, to ask Kennedy to reconsider. The outlet’s sources said Monarez was given the option to resign or be fired.

On the same day the news broke that Monarez was out at the CD

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