The official top FDA vaccine appears and quotes Kennedy's “misinformation and lies”

The top vaccine officer of Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Peter Marks, stepped down on Friday and said that the aggressive attitude of Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was irresponsible for vaccines and was a danger to the public.

“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but he would like a submissive confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” wrote Dr. Marks to Sara Brenner, the incumbent commissioner of the agency. He confirmed the feelings in an interview and said: “This man does not take care of the truth. He takes care of what followers.”

Dr. Marks resigned after he was called to the Department of Health and Human Services on Friday afternoon and said that he could either stop or be released, according to the matter.

Dr. Marks led the Center for Biological Assessment and Research of the Agency, which authorized and monitored the safety of vaccines and a variety of other treatments, including cell and genetic therapies. He was seen as a constant hand by many during the Covid pandemic, but was criticized because he was excessively generous for companies, the permits for therapies with mixed evidence of a benefit.

His continued supervision of the FDA vaccine program clearly contradicted him in contradiction to the new health secretary. Since Mr. Kennedy was sworn in on February 13, he has published a number of instructions for the vaccine directive, which signaled his willingness to decrease for decades of vaccination security guidelines. He has people who fear that he will use his mighty state authority to promote his decades of campaign to say that vaccines are uniquely harmful, despite great evidence of their role in saving millions of lives worldwide.

“Trust in well -established vaccines that have met the high standards for quality, security and effectiveness that have been with the FDA for decades is irresponsible, harmful to public health and a clear danger to health, security and security,” wrote Dr. Marks.

For example, Mr. Kennedy promoted the value of vitamin A as a treatment during the great measles outbreak in Texas and at the same time downplayed the value of vaccines. He has installed an analyst with a deep connection to the anti-Accacine movement to work on a study in which the long-stent theory is examined that vaccines are connected to autism.

And on Thursday, Mr. Kennedy said in Newsnation that he wanted to create a vaccine injury agency within the centers for the control and prevention of diseases. He said the efforts had priority for him and would bring the federal government “gold standard science”.

The house committee for supervision and government reform sent a list of claims to Mr. Kennedy on Saturday to apply for records for a list of measures, which it described as “the country's public health by undermining the routine vaccinations”. The committee asked him to record records in connection with the termination of Dr. To present Marks.

The letter signed by Gerald E. Connolly, a democrat from Virginia and the committee's ranking list, also asked the FDA to return and use the funds of grants in connection with the hesitation of vaccines and to provide information on canceled or late meetings of the vaccine advisory committee. “I am deeply alerted that they continue to sow doubts about the effectiveness of the vaccination,” says the letter.

An HHS spokesman said in a statement on Friday evening that Dr. Marks at the FDA have no place if he had not committed himself to transparency.

In his letter, Dr. Marks the fatal tribute of measles in the light of Mr. Kennedy's lukewarm advice on immunization during the outbreak of many non -vaccinated people in Texas and other states.

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Dr. Marks added that he was ready to address Mr. Kennedy's concerns about the security and transparency of vaccines with public meetings and the cooperation with the national academies of sciences, engineering and medicine.

“I did everything I could for this administration to work with them to restore trust in vaccines,” said Dr. Marks in an interview. “It became clear that they were not what they wanted.”

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Ellen V. Sigal, founder of the Advocacy Group Friends of Cancer Research and a close ally of Dr. Marks, said, said that his “leadership has significantly promoted medical innovation and ensuring that life -saving treatments reach patients who need the most urgent”. His departure, she said, “will create a significant emptiness.”

John Crowley, the managing director of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, the trade association of the biotechnology industry, also praised the management of Dr.

Dr. Marks steered the FDA vaccine program in the turbulent years of Coronavirus pandemic and led the agency and its external consultants through a number of decisions about the type of evidence that were necessary to grant emergency permits for the emergency permit provided in the course of the Operation Warp Speed ​​initiative.

In June 2022, he asked a committee of experts from external experts to take into account the risk that the virus for children under 5 years old. The committee later voted for the recommendation of vaccines for this age group.

“We have to make sure that due to the overwhelming number of older deaths, we do not become deaf here in the number of pediatric deaths,” said Dr. Marks back then.

Dr. Peter Hodez, a vaccine expert from the Baylor College of Medicine, said he regularly had Dr. Marks spoken. “He was extremely obliged to use science to help the American people,” he said. “He was one of the heroes of pandemic, so I'm sorry to see him go.”

Dr. Marks was skeptically viewed by some of the FDA, including former members of his own team of vaccines. The two high -ranking supervisory authorities of the agency's vaccine office, partly due to the efforts of the bidges, resigned to accelerate the licensing of the Coronavirus shot from Pfizer and the approval of Covid booster shots.

While Mr. Kennedy pushed for further investigations into vaccination injuries, Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said that such research has had priority for decades.

“I'm afraid that this is a way to emphasize vaccine injuries in a way that is completely disproportionate, which is the real risk,” he said.

Dr. Marks clearly shared these concerns. In his letter, he expressed the wish that the current administration was limited.

“My hope,” he wrote, “is that in the coming years the unprecedented attack on the scientific truth that public health in our nation has had a disadvantage, so that so that the citizens of our country can fully benefit from the breadth of progress in medicine.”