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The Guardian - US
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Johana Bhuiyan and agencies

CDC official in charge of Covid data resigns ahead of vaccine meeting

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The CDC headquarters in Atlanta. Photograph: David Goldman/AP

The scientist responsible for overseeing the CDC team that collects data on Covid and RSV hospitalizations resigned on Monday.

Dr Fiona Havers told colleagues in an email that she no longer had confidence the data would be used “objectively or evaluated with appropriate scientific rigor to make evidence-based vaccine policy decisions”, according to Reuters.

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