The best official FDA vaccine gives up, citing Kennedy’s “disinformation and lies”

The most significant official of the Food and Drug Administration vaccine, Dr. Peter Marx, resigned under pressure on Friday and said that the aggressive attitude of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In the case of vaccines, it was irresponsible and poses a threat to society.

“It became clear that the secretary and transparency are not desirable by the secretary, but rather wishes this subordinated confirmation of his disinformation and lies.” Dr. Marx wrote Sara Brenner, Commissioner of the Agency. In an interview, he repeated sentiments, saying: “This man does not care about the truth. He cares about what makes him followers.”

Dr. Marx gave up after he was called to the Health and Social Welfare Department on Friday afternoon and said that he could either give up or be released, according to a person familiar with this matter.

Dr. Marx managed the Agency’s Assessment and Biological Research Center, which approved and monitored vaccine safety and a wide range of other treatment methods, including cell and gene therapies. He was perceived by many as a enduring hand during a pandemic because of Kadida, but he criticized for being too generous for companies that looked for approval on therapies with mixed proof of benefit.

His constant supervision over the FDA vaccine program clearly exposed him to the novel Secretary of Health. Since Mr. Kennedy was sworn in on February 13, he issued a series of directives on vaccine policy that signaled his readiness to solve decades of vaccine security policies. He rattled people who are afraid that he would operate his powerful government authority to further decades the campaign that vaccines are extremely harmful, despite huge evidence of their role in saving millions of human lives around the world.

“Undermining trust in well-established vaccines, which met high standards of quality, safety and effectiveness, which have existed in FDA for decades, is irresponsible, harmful to public health, and is a clear danger to the health, safety and safety of our nation,” Dr. Marx said.

Mr. Kennedy, for example, promoted the value of vitamin A as treatment during the main explosion of the Oder in Texas, while disregarding the value of vaccines. He installed an analyst with deep connections with vaccination movement to work on a study studying long -time theory that vaccines are associated with autism.

And on Thursday, Kennedy told Newsnation that he was planning to create a vaccine damage agency at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He said that the effort was a priority for him and would assist introduce “golden science” to the federal government.

The HHS spokesman said on Friday evening that Dr. Marx did not take place in the FDA if he was not involved in transparency.

In his letter, Dr. Marx mentioned the deadly fee for measles in the delicate of Mr. Kennedy’s summer advice about the need for vaccination during an explosion among many unvaccinated people in Texas and other states.

Dr. Marx wrote that the Odra, “who killed over 100,000 unvaccinated children in Africa and Asia last year,” because of the complications “she was eliminated from our edges” through the widespread availability of vaccines.

Dr. Marx added that he was willing to deal with the fears of Mr. Kennedy regarding vaccine safety and transparency during public meetings and cooperating with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, but was rejected.

“I did everything I could have to work with them, trying to restore trust in vaccines,” said Dr. Marks in an interview. “It became clear that they did not want it.”

Dr. Marx added that he was leaving the FDA, he was “the burden raised from me because I was in an environment where I was spirally and deeper in danger.”

Ellen V. Sigal, founder of the Friends of Cancer Research and close ally of Dr. Marx, said that “leadership played a key role in conducting medical innovations and ensuring that life -saving treatment reaches patients who need them the most.” She said that his departure would “create a significant emptiness.”

Dr. Marx managed the FDA vaccine program during the turbulent years of Coronavirus pandemic, conducting an agency and its external advisers through a number of decisions regarding this type of evidence needed to grant suddenly authorization as part of the operational initiative of the Trump Administration of the Trump Warp Speed ​​Speed ​​Speed ​​Initiative administration, which Dr. Marx.

In June 2022, he begged an external expert committee to consider the danger that the virus found to children under 5; The panel later voted on the same day to recommend vaccines for this age group.

“We must be careful not to numb the number of pediatric deaths because of the overwhelming number of older deaths,” said Dr. Marx.

Dr. Peter Hotage, an expert on vaccines from Baylor College of Medicine, said he regularly talked to Dr. Marx during a pandemic. “He was extremely involved in using science to assist the American nation,” he said. “He was one of the heroes of Pandemia, so I’m sorry he was leaving him.”

Dr. Marx was skeptical perceived by some in the FDA, including former members of their own vaccine team. The two highest regulatory bodies in the agency vaccine office resigned in 2021. accelerate licensing Coronavirus Pfizer’s shot and Covid Booster Shots.

While Mr. Kennedy pressed more testing on vaccine injuries, Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Research and Policy of Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota, said that such studies have already been a priority for decades.

“I am afraid that this is a way to emphasize the injuries of the vaccines in a way completely disproportionate to what the real risk is,” he said.

Dr. Marx clearly shared these fears. In his letter, he expressed the desire that the damage caused by the current administration would be restricted.

“I hope that – he wrote -” In the coming years, an unprecedented attack on a really scientific, which has negatively affected public health in our nation, is coming to an end that the citizens of our country can fully benefit from progress in medical sciences. “