The highest FOOD and DRUG administration regulator suddenly resigned on Friday and, according to a letter obtained by Bloomberg, called the efforts to call the Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Peter Marks, who was a key figure in operation of the speed of the warp, resigned from his position to the director of the Center for the FDA Biologic Evaluation and Research, which is responsible for the safety and efficacy of vaccines, together with gene therapies and blood products.
“I was willing to work to solve the concerns of the secretary about the security and transparency of the vaccine,” he said. “It turned out, however, that the secretary is not required to be true and transparency, but rather wishes a subordinate confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
Kennedy openly questioned the safety of vaccines for years. At the beginning of his term of office as Minister of Health, he postponed HHS and canceled external vaccine experts, announced plans for studying between vaccines and autism and canceled financing for the study of vaccine hesitation.
“The ongoing outbreak of multistate measles, which is particularly serious in Texas, reminds us of what happens when confidence in a well -established science that is the basis of public health and well -being is undermined,” Marks said on Friday. “The vaccine simply does not cause autism or is not associated with encephalitis or death.”
The HHS official said that if Marks does not want to get the pressure for Kennedy’s transparency, he should not stay at the FDA.
Marks said he disagreed with the direction of the new administration.
“Underbound confidence in established vaccines that have met high standards for quality, safety and efficiency, which has been introduced for decades for FDA, is irresponsible, harmful to public health and a clear danger to the health, security of our nation and security,” he said in his letter.
On Thursday, HHS announced a bulk dismantling of 10,000 employees across federal agencies, which in combination with the purchase and early retirement programs will reduce the workforce of the ministry by approximately 25%. The agency said employees who control drugs would not be released.
Marks, who resigned to April 5, has been the director of the Center since 2016.
Wall Street Journal first announced Marks’s departure.
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