A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after federal health officials rescinded long-standing recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

A top COVID-19 vaccine advisor has reportedly resigned from her role at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the wake of an abrupt vaccine policy change announced by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for "healthy children and healthy pregnant women" follows years of spurious and misleading claims he made about the vaccine.