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- Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a key CDC employee who provided information to members of the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on COVID-19 vaccines, is leaving the agency following HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s changes to COVID immunization schedules.
- I am “no longer able to help the most vulnerable members” of the population, Panagiotakopoulos, a pediatric infectious diseases expert, wrote in an email to colleagues, Reuters reported.
- Her job at CDC involved providing information to ACIP members for use in presentations.
- The CDC updated its COVID immunization guidance in late May after RFK Jr. said the shots will no longer be recommended for healthy pregnant women and children.
- Reuters reported that ACIP will meet from June 25-27 where recommendations on COVID vaccines will be discussed.
- Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA), Pfizer (NYSE:PFE)/BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX), and Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) make COVID vaccines.
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