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Jun 21, 2023 · The outgoing head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday her reasons for stepping down were complicated, driven in part by a desire to take a break from the frenetic pace of the job during a pandemic.
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Walensky’s supporters point to her success in overseeing the vaccination of millions of Americans against Covid, the successful effort to control the mpox outbreak of 2022, and her efforts to improve the CDC. But her critics, including many Republicans in Congress, see Walensky as responsible for confusing public health messaging that didn’t help e...
Walensky was appointed in December 2020 by then-President-elect Biden. As the head of Massachusetts General Hospital’s infectious disease division and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Walenksy was widely respected in public health circles for her work, including decades of HIV research. But her lack of experience navigating a fede...
Both the Covid and mpox crises raised fundamental questions about the way the CDC functions within the federal government. Allegations from lawmakers that the nation’s premier public health agency has been compromised by political pressure did not end with the Trump administration, they just started to come from Republicans. At the same time, publi...
Sep 23, 2021 · But Dr. Kathleen Dooling of the CDC explained, there's flexibility. It does not need to be six months to the day. KATHLEEN DOOLING: Immunity wanes gradually over time.
Aug 13, 2021 · Dr. Kathleen Dooling, MD, MPH Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices August 13, 2021. FDA: Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Amendment. August 12, 2021: FDA Authorizes Additional Vaccine Dose for Certain Immunocompromised Individuals*
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Sep 23, 2021 · Definition of ‘fully vaccinated’. For public health purposes, people who have completed a primary vaccine series (i.e. 2-dose mRNA vaccine series or a single dose of the Janssen vaccine) are considered fully vaccinated ≥2 weeks after completion of the primary series.
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Jan 1, 2020 · Kathleen Dooling M.D. is a Chief Medical Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2020 Meeting.
That's what a group that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on such fraught issues decided today in a near-unanimous vote. After hearing detailed presentations from CDC scientists who explained the rationale for this specific prioritization scheme, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 13 ...
