Peter Marks, the highest clerk against food and medicines (FDA), resigned, and on Friday confirmed the official at the Ministry of Health and Human Services. According to news outputs, more sources indicated that Marks was forced to resign.
Marks, who has been the FDA (CBE) Biology Center since 2016, played a key role in supervising the vaccine approval, including the COVID-19. In her resignation letter to the reigning Commissioner FDA Sara Brennerová Marks condemned the efforts to undermine public confidence in vaccines.
“Underbringing confidence in the vaccine is irresponsible, harmful to public health and a clear danger to the health, safety and safety of our nation,” wrote Marks, as CBS News says.
Its resignation is effective on April 5.
A dispute over the safety of the vaccine and the influence of Kennedy
Marks’s resignation comes in the middle of the growing tension between federal medical officials and anti-vaccinating activists, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy, he was a loud critic of vaccines against Covid-19.
In his resignation letter, Marks suggested that his attitude to transparency and science clashes with the opinions of health officials.
“It was clear that the secretary is not obvious that true and transparency are not desirable, but rather wishes a subordinate confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks wrote, quoted the news out.
Kennedy repeatedly questioned the security of the vaccine. He also raised concerns about the measles-rubella (MRD) measles.
In a recent Fox News interview, Kennedy said the MMR vaccine “causes death every year”. However, America’s infectious disease states that healthy individuals have not been death with the MMR vaccine.
Extracts of the measles of sparks
Marks’s resignation comes when the US faces a growing focus of measles, with Texas experiencing particularly serious cases.
“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 wrote in his resignation letter, as reported.
He also warned against the global consequences of vaccine hesitation.
“Measles that killed more than 100,000 non -evacuated children in Africa and Asia last year due to pneumonitis and encephalitis caused by the virus were removed from our banks,” he wrote.
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