Dr Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos quits CDC after Kennedy’s vaccine update

PEDIATRIC infectious disease expert Dr Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos has resigned as co-leader of a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) working group that advises on Covid-19 vaccines.

In an email to colleagues, Panagiotakopoulos said that her decision was based on the belief she is “no longer able to help the most vulnerable members” of the US population.

The resignation comes days after Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other health agency leaders said they would stop recommending coronavirus shots for healthy children and pregnant women.