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CDC Vaccine Expert Resigns

CDC official overseeing COVID hospitalization data resigns after RFK Jr.'s vaccine orders

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who led the agency's network to study hospitalization trends from infectious diseases like COVID-19 has resigned in protest following Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s orders to change the agency's vaccine recommendations and the committee that makes them.

U.S. News & World Report · 2d

US CDC Official in Charge of COVID, RSV Data Resigns Ahead of Vaccine Meeting

The scientist, Dr. Fiona Havers, told colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday that she no longer had confidence that the COVID and RSV data would be used "objectively or evaluated with appropriate scientific rigor to make evidence-based vaccine policy decisions," according to an email seen by Reuters.

Associated Press News on MSN · 13d

Who's in charge? CDC's leadership 'crisis' apparent amid new COVID-19 vaccine guidance

There was a notable absence last week when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a 58-second video that the government would no longer endorse the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children or pregnant women.

COVID ‘razor blade throat’ rises

Hindustan Times on MSN · 7m

What we know about Covid variant ‘Nimbus’ known for ‘razor blade throat’ amid surge in cases

The new variant Nimbus is a subvariant of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. The variant has garnered global attention due to its ‘razor blade throat’ symptom.

KXAN Austin on MSN · 1h

What we know about ‘razor blade throat’ COVID

A new COVID-19 variant spreading internationally has been dubbed "razor blade throat" COVID after reportedly causing significant throat pain. It's unclear if that variant has reached Texas.

USA Today · 1d

'Razor blade throat': What to know about COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1

"Considering the available evidence, the additional public health risk posed by NB.1.8.1 is evaluated as low at the global level," the WHO stated in a May report. "Currently approved COVID-19 vaccines are expected to remain effective to this variant against symptomatic and severe disease.

2hon MSN

A new coronavirus variant is spreading. A doctor explains what people should know

A new Covid-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, or Nimbus, represents about a third of new US Covid-19 cases. Dr. Leana Wen answers ...

5don MSN

New COVID variant NB.1.8.1 could be more than 1 in 3 cases, CDC says

The NB.1.8.1 COVID-19 variant was linked to a large surge of hospitalizations in parts of Asia earlier this year.

The Harvard Crimson5d

Ex-HMS Professor Who Refused Covid-19 Vaccine Named to CDC Immunization Panel

A former Harvard Medical School professor who claims he was fired for refusing to receive the Covid-19 vaccine was appointed ...

Ex-Harvard professor fired after refusing COVID shot named to CDC vaccine panel

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. purged all previous members of the vaccine panel and said appointing new ones would restore public ...

6don MSN

RFK Jr. taps allies and COVID vaccine critics among picks for CDC advisory panel. Here's who's on the list.

Meissner was previously listed in April as a consultant to the RSV vaccines work group for the CDC committee, before Kennedy ...

New CDC advisers will skip some expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists

Targeting thimerosal would likely force manufacturers to switch to single-dose vials, which would make the shots more ...

Becker's Hospital Review3d

New COVID strain jumps to over 1 in 3 US cases: 4 notes

NB.1.8.1 — a new COVID-19 variant tied to a surge in China — now accounts for around 37% of cases in the U.S., according to variant proportion estimates from the CDC. Four notes: ...

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