A top coronavirus vaccine adviser to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resigned from the agency, citing concerns that she would no longer be able to help the most vulnerable people following a change in the agency’s recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women.

In an email to colleagues, Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said the decision to leave was a “personal” one.

“My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population, and that is not something I am able to continue doing in this role,” she wrote in an email viewed by The Hill.

She said she made her decision Friday.

Her resignation was first reported by Reuters.

Panagiotakopoulos served as the co-leader of the coronavirus vaccine wo

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