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erronis

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Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:40 PM Jun 16

CDC official in charge of Covid data resigns ahead of vaccine meeting [View all]

Source: The Guardian

Fiona Havers says she does not have confidence data will be use to make ‘evidence-based vaccine policy decisions’

The scientist responsible for overseeing the CDC team that collects data on Covid and RSV hospitalizations resigned on Monday.

Dr Fiona Havers told colleagues in an email that she no longer had confidence the data would be used “objectively or evaluated with appropriate scientific rigor to make evidence-based vaccine policy decisions”, according to Reuters.

She resigned before a planned meeting of a new vaccine panel put in place by Robert Kennedy Jr after he fired all 17 members of the CDC’s independent vaccine advisory panel. Kennedy also dropped a recommendation to get the Covid shot for healthy children and pregnant women.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/cdc-official-covid-data-resigbns



People with integrity and belief in the scientific method are fleeing this regime. Welcome to the dark ages, again.
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