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Top CDC COVID vaccine expert resigns after RFK Jr. unilaterally restricts access | The expert said she could no longer help vulnerable people in her CDC role.
The expert said she could no longer help vulnerable people in her CDC role.
The resignation, first reported by The Associated Press and confirmed by CBS News, comes just a week after health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unilaterally revoked and altered some of the CDC's recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, restricting access to children and pregnant people. The resignation also comes three weeks before CDC's experts and advisors are scheduled to meet to publicly evaluate data and discuss the recommendations for this season—a long-established process that was disrupted by Kennedy's announcement. But the CDC's edited immunization schedule did not remove the recommendation outright; rather, it simply added a stipulation that a child's doctor and parents agree on the vaccination, described as "shared clinical decision-making."
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