A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who led the agency's network to study hospitalization trends from infectious diseases like COVID-19 has resigned in protest following Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s orders to change the agency's vaccine recommendations and the committee that makes them.

In JAMA, the peer-reviewed medical journal, the ousted board members fired off against Kennedy’s cull. They wrote that the dismissals and the resulting replacement with MAHA minions, as well as the reduction of dedicated CDC immunization staff, has “left the U.S. vaccine program critically weakened.”