{"id":9738,"date":"2025-06-17T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9738"},"modified":"2025-06-17T20:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:08:27","slug":"cdc-official-overseeing-covid-hospitalization-data-resigns-in-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/17\/cdc-official-overseeing-covid-hospitalization-data-resigns-in-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC official overseeing COVID hospitalization data resigns in protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/cdc-official-overseeing-covid-hospitalization-220524271.html\">CBS News<\/a> A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who led the agency&#8217;s network to study hospitalization trends from infectious diseases like COVID-19 has resigned in protest following Health and Human Services Secretary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-covid-vaccines-cdc-children-pregnant-women\/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s orders to change the agency's vaccine recommendations, opens in a new window\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s orders to change the agency&#8217;s vaccine recommendations<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rfk-jr-removes-members-cdc-immunization-advisory-committee-acip\/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"committee that makes them, opens in a new window\">committee that makes them<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Fiona Havers&#8217; last day at the CDC was Monday, according to an announcement sent by an agency official to her branch within the agency&#8217;s Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division. They received the notice shortly after Reuters&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/us-cdc-official-charge-covid-rsv-data-resigns-ahead-vaccine-meeting-2025-06-16\/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"first reported, opens in a new window\">first reported<\/a>&nbsp;on the resignation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who led the agency&#8217;s network to study hospitalization trends from infectious diseases like COVID-19 has resigned in protest following Health and Human Services Secretary&nbsp;Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s orders to change the agency&#8217;s vaccine recommendations&nbsp;and the&nbsp;committee that makes them. Dr. Fiona Havers&#8217; last day at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9739,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions\/9739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}