CDC Scientist Leaves Agency Over Split With RFK Jr.

Dr. Fiona Havers’s resignation follows sweeping changes to the vaccine advisory panel and narrowed COVID-19 guidelines.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta on Aug. 25, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist who regularly presented data to the agency’s vaccine advisory panel has resigned.

Dr. Fiona Havers told The New York Times that she resigned from the CDC on June 16 because she disagrees with the approach to vaccines under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.