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Top CDC COVID Vaccine Expert Resigns

The expert said she could no longer help vulnerable people in her CDC role.

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Exclusive: Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos of the US CDC resigned as co-leader of a working group that advises outside experts on COVID vaccines and is leaving the agency, two sources familiar with the move told Reuters reut.rs/4ksJLZt

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-- Reuters (@reuters.com) Jun 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM

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... A top expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was overseeing the process to update COVID-19 vaccine recommendations resigned on Tuesday.

The resignation, first reported by The Associated Press and confirmed by CBS News, comes just a week after health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unilaterally revoked and altered some of the CDC's recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, restricting access to children and pregnant people. The resignation also comes three weeks before CDC's experts and advisors are scheduled to meet to publicly evaluate data and discuss the recommendations for this season"a long-established process that was disrupted by Kennedy's announcement.

The departing CDC official, Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a pediatric infectious disease expert, was a co-leader of a working group on COVID-19 vaccines who advised experts on the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). She informed her ACIP colleagues of her resignation in an email on Tuesday.

"My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population, and that is not something I am able to continue doing in this role," Panagiotakopoulos wrote. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-04 05:55 PM

So it's "less politicized" now, according to some know-nothing doofuses here

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-06-04 06:10 PM

^The CDC

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-06-04 06:11 PM

@#2,3

Yeah, there seems to be a person in charge of our Great Nation's health who has no medical training whatsoever, and who appears to have a penchant for propagation debunked conspiracy theories.

How s that a road to success?


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-04 07:25 PM

Kakistocrasy in its purest form.

#5 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-06-04 09:06 PM

We are getting what we deserve.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-06 09:12 AM

RFK Jr. is a traitor.

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-06 10:15 AM

My local chain pharmacies still over the shot. I'm going to get another, to get me into the holidays. I hope that by then a safe, effective version for the new variant is available to folks like me (i.e., over 65, and with a health issue)...

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2025-06-06 01:20 PM

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