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

  • Dr. Fiona Havers, who led CDC's surveillance of COVID-19 and RSV hospitalizations, resigned on Monday in protest of changes to vaccine recommendations.
  • Her resignation followed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s unprecedented firing of all 17 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices members last week and replacement with allies and vaccine critics.
  • Havers expressed in an email to colleagues doubt that data would be used objectively or with proper scientific rigor to guide vaccine policy decisions under the new leadership.
  • A researcher described her departure as the latest dismantling of CDC expertise, and Kennedy said his handpicked panel is committed to ‘‘gold-standard science’’ to restore public trust.
  • The new committee is scheduled to meet next week to vote on updated COVID-19 and RSV vaccine recommendations, illustrating ongoing shifts in CDC vaccine policymaking.
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World News broke the news in United States on Monday, June 16, 2025.
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