Top CDC Official RESIGNS

100 Percent Fed Up ^ | June 04, 2025 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a pediatric infectious disease expert and top CDC official, resigned on Tuesday as co-leader of the agency’s group that oversees updates to COVID-19 jab recommendations.

Reuters first reported her resignation.

This is the start to a great Birthday!!🎂

CDC official overseeing COVID-19 vaccine recommendations resigns – CBS News https://t.co/bNn66H01Cg

— Brian Tyson, MD 🇺🇸 (@btysonmd) June 4, 2025

Per Reuters:

Panagiotakopoulos said in an email to work group colleagues that her decision to step down was based on the belief she is “no longer able to help the most vulnerable members” of the U.S. population.

In her role at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s working group of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, she co-led the gathering of information on topics for presentation.

Her resignation comes one week after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-time vaccine skeptic, said the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women had been removed from the CDC’s recommended immunization schedule. Kennedy oversees the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health as leader of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The move was a departure from the usual process in which ACIP experts meet and vote on changes to the immunization schedule or recommendations on who should get vaccines before the agency’s director made a final call. The committee had not voted on the changes announced by Kennedy and the CDC does not yet have a permanent director.

Some questioned if Panagiotakopoulos will take a job in the pharmaceutical industry after her resignation.

Taking a job in a pharma company? https://t.co/XzzS5GtNu3

— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) June 4, 2025

“Thank you @SecKennedy & @DrMakaryFDA for ensuring those w/ conflicts of interest, be they ideological, financial or otherwise, will not influence decision making,” Health Freedom Defense Fund President Leslie Manookian commented.

Thank you @SecKennedy & @DrMakaryFDA for ensuring those w/ conflicts of interest, be they ideological, financial or otherwise, will not influence decision making. From the article, "More of us should be resigning in protest" – don't let the door hit you…https://t.co/my5G348Ip9

— Leslie Manookian (@LeslieManookian) June 4, 2025

CBS News reports:

The committee had been set to vote on updated recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines at a meeting later this month, before Kennedy usurped the process to impose his own changes to the guidance.

Earlier this year, members of the work group had signaled they were already leaning toward narrowing the guidance to soften the recommendation for children with no underlying conditions to get vaccinated, in line with how Kennedy’s order was ultimately implemented.

But Kennedy’s directive also broke with the committee by ordering the agency to exclude pregnant women from its COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. Pregnant women had been one of the groups that experts had worried were at higher risk of severe COVID-19 and warranted continued recommendations to get vaccinated.

“More of us should be resigning in protest,” one federal health official told CBS News, in response to the news of Panagiotakopoulos leaving her role.

[smokingfrog]

Well, bye…

[Terry L Smith]

D L T F D H Y I T A O T W O T D!!!!

[Codeflier]

Think of all the RAM required just to display her last name!

[lee martell]

Poor Doctor Lakshmi. Just from the exertion of having to repeatedly sign that long, Greek surname, (Panagiotakopoulos) she may have soon been on disability anyway!

[shelterguy]

“More of us should be resigning in protest,” one federal health official told CBS”””””

Sounds good to me. See ya.

[ridesthemiles]

Where do you get a driver’s license that has enough room for that name????

[Red Badger]

India?..............

[Red Badger]

....Or at least writer’s cramp.................

[Major Matt Mason]

Can we get someone named Bob Smith to take this job?

[mewzilla]

More here...

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/cdc-expert-overseeing-covid-shot-guidance-steps-down/

Note this bit...

“...She is a pediatric infectious diseases expert...”

How many kids have been harmed by CoupFlu vaxxes?

She’s getting out of Dodge one step ahead of the posse...

[circlecity]

Good riddance

[Cobra64]

RFK should fire anyone who mentions the word, “Covid.”

[Jane Long]

Oh, good....I see that Secy Kennedy and others must’ve gotten the lovely tweet I sent them, about all of this *new* mNRA jab roll out Bea Ess . 😂

[ComputerGuy]

Back in the 1970s, Nigeria had a civil war. Many Nigerians showed up in DC. None could drive, but they were given driver’s licenses. Some or their names were so long that they wouldn’t fit on the DL. They had to be abbreviated

[mewzilla]

And then there's this...

Use of COVID-19 Vaccines for Persons Aged ≥6 Months: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — United States, 2024–2025

[Gay State Conservative]

Stand by for this “expert’s” book.

[Beowulf9]

She’s I’m guessing a big leftists.

They can all resign as far as I’m concerned.

Can’t help but thinking it’s more due to, ‘doggone it can’t make any more money here now that Trump is in’.

[vikingd00d]

>>Where do you get a driver’s license that has enough room for that name????

Same place Mr. Hubert Wolfeschlegelsteinhausen­bergerdorff­welche­vor­altern­waren­gewissenhaft­schafers­wessen­schafe­waren­wohl­gepflege­und­sorgfaltigkeit­beschutzen­von­angreifen­durch­ihr­raubgierig­feinde­welche­vor­altern­zwolf­tausend­jahres­voran­die­erscheinen­van­der­erste­erdemensch­der­raumschiff­gebrauch­licht­als­sein­ursprung­von­kraft­gestart­sein­lange­fahrt­hinzwischen­sternartig­raum­auf­der­suchen­ach­die­stern­welche­gehabt­bewohnbar­planeten­kreise­drehen­sich­und­wohin­der­neu­rasse­von­verstandig­menschlichkeit­konnte­fortpflanzen­und­sich­erfreuen­an­lebenslanglich­freude­und­ruhe­mit­nicht­ein­furcht­vor­angreifen­von­anderer­intelligent­geschopfs­von­hinzwischen­sternartig­raum got his.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

The CDC is nothing but an entrenched lobbying mechanism for “Big Farmah”...disguised as a consumer protection agency.

It should be defunded and abolished!