fiona havers - Search News

News

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 · 5h

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 · 22h

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.

Devdiscourse20h

CDC Scientist Resigns Over Concerns of Data Misuse

Dr. Fiona Havers, a U.S. government scientist overseeing COVID-19 and RSV data, resigned, citing concerns over misuse of data ...

KFF Health News6h

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.

20hon MSN

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’ - ...

BioSpace7h

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 ...

MedPage Today on MSN22h

Removed ACIP Members Say 'U.S. Vaccine Program Critically Weakened'

Joining ACIP involves a rigorous process, they argued, including submitting letters of support from experts and peers, a ...

New COVID variant swiftly gains ground in US; concern looms for summer wave

While COVID-19 transmission remains low in the US, health experts are anxious about the potential for a big summer wave as ...

Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you

Show inaccessible results