{"id":29845,"date":"2025-06-18T09:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29845"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:28:06","slug":"why-a-vaccine-expert-left-the-c-d-c-americans-are-going-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29845","title":{"rendered":"Why a Vaccine Expert Left the C.D.C.: \u2018Americans Are Going to Die\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Fiona Havers is influential among researchers who study immunizations. The wholesale dismissal of the agency\u2019s scientific advisers crossed the line, she said.<\/p>\n

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In 13 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Fiona Havers crafted guidance for contending with Zika virus, helped China respond to outbreaks of bird flu and guided safe burial practices for Ebola deaths in Liberia.<\/p>\n

More recently, she was a senior adviser on vaccine policy, leading a team that produced data on hospitalizations related to Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus. To the select group of scientists, federal officials and advocates who study who should get immunizations and when, Dr. Havers is well known, an embodiment of the C.D.C.\u2019s intensive data-gathering operations.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Dr. Havers resigned, saying she could no longer continue while the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dismantled the careful processes that help formulate vaccination standards in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it isn\u2019t stopped, and some of this isn\u2019t reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases,\u201d she said in an interview with The New York Times, the first since her resignation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Havers, 49, cited an escalating series of attacks on federal vaccine policy by Mr. Kennedy. Three weeks ago, the health secretary announced in a minute-long video on X that the agency would no longer recommend<\/a> Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children or pregnant women.<\/p>\n

Last week, he fired<\/a> all 17 members of the agency\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, saying without evidence that the group was beset with conflicts of interest and that a clean sweep was needed to restore public trust.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Fiona Havers is influential among researchers who study immunizations. The wholesale dismissal of the agency\u2019s scientific advisers crossed the line, she said.In 13 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Fiona Havers crafted guidance for contending with Zika virus, helped China respond to outbreaks of bird flu and guided safe burial practices for Ebola deaths in Liberia.More recently, she was a senior adviser on vaccine policy, leading a team that produced data on hospitalizations related to Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus. To the select group of scientists, federal officials and advocates who study who should get immunizations and when, Dr. Havers is well known, an embodiment of the C.D.C.\u2019s intensive data-gathering operations.On Monday, Dr. Havers resigned, saying she could no longer continue while the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dismantled the careful processes that help formulate vaccination standards in the United States.\u201cIf it isn\u2019t stopped, and some of this isn\u2019t reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases,\u201d she said in an interview with The New York Times, the first since her resignation.Dr. Havers, 49, cited an escalating series of attacks on federal vaccine policy by Mr. Kennedy. Three weeks ago, the health secretary announced in a minute-long video on X that the agency would no longer recommend Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children or pregnant women.Last week, he fired all 17 members of the agency\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, saying without evidence that the group was beset with conflicts of interest and that a clean sweep was needed to restore public trust.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29847,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29848,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845\/revisions\/29848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}