Dr Peter Marks, a top vaccine official from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), abruptly resigned on Friday accusing the US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr of spreading “misinformation and lies”. In a searing resignation letter, Dr Marks said the newly appointed health secretary’s aggressive stance against vaccines was “irresponsible” and poses greater danger to general public.
“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Dr Marks wrote in a letter to Sara Brenner, the agency’s acting commissioner, The New York Times reported.
A source close to the matter told NYT that Dr Marks resigned under pressure. The source from the Department of Health and Human Services said that Dr Marks was told to either resign or get fired. The resignation letter came just hours after Kennedy said in West Virginia that Covid did not kill healthy people, which was in contradiction to multiple research showing 30 per cent of those who died early in the pandemic did not have underlying conditions.
He also spoke about the value of vitamin A during a major measles outbreak in Texas, while downplaying the value of vaccines. Not only this but on Thursday, Kennedy announced that he was creating a new office to study vaccine injuries.
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