CDC official in charge of Covid data resigns ahead of vaccine meeting

[erronis]

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

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

[AZJonnie]

1. We're all going to die

[TommyT139]

2. Much respect to her.

Lots of these people only have one card to play -- or rather, one distress flare to send up -- to say that a particular situation is so bad they are willing to walk out despite whatever uncertainty this brings to their lives.

[groundloop]

3. And sadly these highly competent people will be replaced with utter fools.

I totally get why all of these very smart, well educated people are resigning in protest, but sadly that leaves their posts to be filled with conspiracy theory magats.

[TommyT139]

4. True...

...but they would likely be fired later, just for being competent.

[womanofthehills]

5. Unfortunately- if you look up the individual names of panel fired

Almost all had worked for or had grants from Pfizer, Moderna, Merck etc.

My opinion - I would prefer top US scientists and drs not connected to big pharma.

Lists are available on Groc of those who were fired a those who were hired and their resumes.

[xocetaceans]

6. More unsubstantiated nonsense/conspiracy theory? It is a shame that you claim without adduction and imply by...

..."just asking".

If you're an anti-vaxxer, just come out and type it along with your specific concerns. Most anti-vaxxers cannot begin to formulate intelligent sentences regarding their conspiracy theories, but if that is the case for you, go ahead and try. Those are easiest to confront and obliterate: it is sort of like Trump talking about "transgender mice" which he has sputtered out twice without even knowing how utterly stupid his misunderstanding is. He is clearly moronically wrong in what he is saying and is fixated on the trans issue that he has developed and used to his advantage, and so he apparently can neither read nor fathom the term "transgenic" as in "transgenic mice".

So, what is it? Do you think that they have approved vaccines that will "magnetize" you? Do you think that they have approved vaccines that will "alter your DNA"? Do you think that they've approved vaccines that will cause large-scale "avuncular de-acapellarization"? Or are you trying to spread doubt just for the hell of it so another million plus Americans will die in whatever new pandemic might occur because they no longer trust science and whatever the eventually reconstituted CDC and ACIP will be if we are so lucky as to survive this wide-spread demolition of US institutions?

"Just asking."

[PSPS]

7. So, no "top US scientists" work on studies funded by "big pharma?"

It seems to me that, if I were running a "big pharma" company, the first thing I would want is a cadre of "top US scientists" to contribute. Where do you think the mRNA breakthrough came from? Some pro bono "top US scientist's" garage?