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Investing.com -- A senior scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resigned Monday, expressing concerns about how COVID-19 and RSV hospitalization data would be used by the Trump administration.
Dr. Fiona Havers, who led the RESP-NET Hospitalization Surveillance Team, told CDC colleagues she no longer had confidence that the data would be used "objectively or evaluated with appropriate scientific rigor to make evidence-based vaccine policy decisions," according to an email viewed by Reuters.
Havers’ resignation comes after Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the CDC’s independent vaccine advisory panel and eliminated recommendations for COVID-19 vaccinations for healthy children and pregnant women.
Kennedy, known for questioning vaccine safety and efficacy, appointed eight new members to the panel, some with histories of opposing COVID-19 vaccines or vaccines generally.
In her email, Havers noted that her team’s COVID and RSV data had contributed to more than 20 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 15 CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports.
The newly formed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is scheduled to meet June 25-27 to vote on COVID-19 boosters and other vaccines for public use.
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