An influential vaccine panel’s task force will be led by a member who has previously expressed distrust in the Covid vaccine, weeks after a shooting on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was fueled by Covid misinformation.
Retsef Levi, an operations professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will lead the Covid-19 immunization task force, a spokesperson for Health and Human Services confirmed without offering additional comment. Levi has previously said the Covid shots should be removed from the market and has called the safety of mRNA shots into question.