Top CDC Covid Vaccine Expert Resign after RFK JR. unilaterally restricts access

A high-level expert for centers for disease control and prevention that supervised the process to update the recommendations of the COVVI-19 vaccine resigned on Tuesday.

Resignation, indicated for the first time by The Associated Press and confirmed by CBS NewsComes a week after a secretary to health and an anti-vaccine defender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Unilaterally Revoked and modified some of the CDC recommendations for COVVI-19 vaccinesRestress access to children and pregnant people. The resignation also comes three weeks before experts and CDC advisers meet to publicly assess the data and discuss the recommendations for this season – a long -established process that has been disrupted by Kennedy’s announcement.

The leaving official of the CDC, Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, an expert in pediatric infectious diseases, was co-leader of a working group on COVVI-19 vaccines who advised experts to the CDC advisory committee on vaccination practices (ACIP). She informed her ACIP colleagues of her resignation in an email on Tuesday.

“My career in public health and vaccinology began with a deeply assisted desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population, and this is not something that I am able to continue to play in this role,” wrote Panagiotakopoulos.

Unilateral changes

Previously, the CDC and the AIPI recommended COVVI-19 vaccines for all ages 6 months and more. Experts have pointed out that pregnant people in particular should be vaccinated, as pregnancy removes the immune system and puts the high-risk speakers of serious covid-19 and death. The American Obstetrician and Gynecologists’ college declares that “COVVI-19 infection during pregnancy can be catastrophic”. Further away, Dozens of studies have found That vaccines are safe and effective in protecting the pregnant person, pregnancy and newborns.