The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tapped Retsef Levi, professor of operations management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, to lead the agency’s COVID-19 working group. The Hill reported that the agency confirmed the decision on Monday.

Levi recommended in early 2023 that the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines should be stopped “immediately.” He posted on his social media account that, “The evidence is mounting and indisputable that mRNA vaccines cause serious harm including death, especially among young people. We have to stop giving them immediately!”

Levi was named as one of eight new appointments to an agency advisory group on immunization practices earlier this year, after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all members of the panel.

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