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CDC Virus Expert Quits With a Scary Warning

CDC official overseeing COVID hospitalization data resigns after RFK Jr.'s vaccine orders

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who led the agency's network to study hospitalization trends from infectious diseases like COVID-19 has resigned in protest following Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s orders to change the agency's vaccine recommendations and the committee that makes them.

The Daily Beast on MSN · 21h

CDC Virus Expert Quits With a Scary Warning After RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Purge

In JAMA, the peer-reviewed medical journal, the ousted board members fired off against Kennedy’s cull. They wrote that the dismissals and the resulting replacement with MAHA minions, as well as the reduction of dedicated CDC immunization staff, has “left the U.S. vaccine program critically weakened.”

The Washington Post on MSN · 1d

CDC virus expert resigns after RFK Jr.’s purge of vaccine advisers

Fiona Havers, who oversaw CDC respiratory virus data, told colleagues she no longer had confidence the data would be used objectively to set vaccine policy.

Why a Vaccine Expert Left the C.D.C.: ‘Americans Are Going to Die’

Dr. Fiona Havers is influential among researchers who study immunizations. The wholesale dismissal of the agency’s scientific ...

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CDC respiratory virus official resigns as former ACIP members warn of immunization progress rollback

A Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist who leads the team that tracks respiratory virus hospitalizations ...

BioSpace23h

CDC Scientist Resigns in Protest as Kennedy Reshapes Vaccine Regulation

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s actions in recent months have raised concerns that he is taking a heavy-handed and ...

KFF Health News22h

CDC Official Who Tracked Hospital Trends From Infectious Diseases Quits

"I no longer have confidence that these data will be used objectively or evaluated with appropriate scientific rigor to make evidence-based vaccine policy decisions," Dr. Fiona Havers told colleagues.

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Covid-19 and RSV head data scientist dramatically quits saying she doesn’t trust RFK Jr department to use it ‘objectively’

Covid-19 and RSV head data scientist dramatically quits saying she doesn’t trust RFK Jr department to use it ‘objectively’ - ...

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