A top COVID-19 vaccine adviser at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has resigned, saying that she is no longer able to perform her mission to help “the most vulnerable.”

Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos informed her colleagues on Tuesday in an email that she was leaving the CDC after 12 years.

“Unfortunately for me, this is a personal decision,” Panagiotakopoulos wrote in an email that was read to Reuters by a source who received it.

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