The senior FDA vaccine head resigns, citing the `disinformation and the lies ” of Kennedy

The senior official of the Food and Drug Administration vaccine, Dr. Peter Marks, suddenly resigned on Friday, affirming in a burning letter that the aggressive position of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.

“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but he rather wishes the subordinate confirmation of his disinformation and his lies,” wrote Dr. Marks to Sara Brenner, acting commissioner of the agency.

Dr. Marks resigned under pressure, according to a person familiar with the case who said that an official of the Ministry of Health and Social Services said on Friday that he could resign or be dismissed.

A few hours earlier in Virginia-Western, Kennedy said that COVVID did not kill healthy people, unlike research showing that 30% of those who died early in the pandemic did not have underlying conditions. Mr. Kennedy also praised the value of vitamin A as a treatment during a major measles epidemic in Texas, while minimizing the value of vaccines. On Thursday, he announced that he was creating a new office to study vaccine injuries.

Dr. Marks noted in his letter that measles, “who killed more than 100,000 children not vaccinated last year in Africa and Asia”, due to complications, “had been eliminated from our coasts”.

He added that he had been willing to respond to Mr. Kennedy’s concerns concerning the security and transparency of vaccines with a series of public meetings and working with the national academies of science, engineering and medicine, but was postponed.