A senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who helped shape national vaccine policy for respiratory viruses, resigned Monday.
Dr. Fiona Havers, an internal medicine physician and infectious disease specialist, cited concerns about the future of vaccine policy under U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In an email to colleagues announcing her resignation, Havers said she was no longer confident that COVID-19 and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, vaccine data would be used “objectively or evaluated with appropriate scientific rigor to make evidence-based vaccine policy decisions.”
Drug safety advocate Kim Witczak said Havers’ concerns over how the current administration will use data on respiratory illnesses belied the lack of scientific debate plaguing public health agencies…
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