Dr. Peter Marx resigned, the best food and drug vaccine official, under pressure on Friday and said that the position of Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Junior on vaccines was irresponsible and pose a threat to the public.
“It has become clear that the truth and transparency are not desirable by the Secretary, but rather he wishes a subject of wrong information and lies,” Dr. Marx wrote To Sarah Brenner, Acting Agency Commissioner. He repeated the feelings in an interview, saying: “This man does not care about the truth. He cares about what makes him followers.”
After summoning to the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, Dr. Marx resigned on Friday afternoon and told him that he could either quit resignation or shoot, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Dr. Marx led the Agency Center for Evaluation and Research of Biology, which authorized and monitored vaccine safety and a wide range of other treatments, including cell treatments and genes. He was seen as a fixed hand Being very generous To companies that have sought approvals for treatments with mixed evidence of benefit.
It is clear that his continuous supervision of the Food and Drug Administration Divis’ program (FDA) was developed at odds with the new Minister of Health. Since Mr. Kennedy was sworn in on February 13, he issued a series of directives on vaccine policy that indicated his willingness to uncover contracts of vaccine safety policies. People who are afraid of using his strong governmental authority have rocked for decades that lasted for decades to claim that vaccines are uniquely harmful, despite the extensive evidence of their role in saving millions of lives all over the world.
Dr. Marx wrote: “Understanding confidence in the established vaccines that have fulfilled the high standards of quality, safety and effectiveness that existed for decades in the Food and Drug Administration is irresponsible, and it is harmful to public health, and a clear danger to the health of our nation, our safety and our security.”
Mr. Kennedy, for example, promoted the value of vitamin A as a treatment during the outbreak of the main measles in Texas while reducing the value of vaccines. He has installed an analyst with profound relations with the Anti -Qazi movement to work in a study that has long been completed that the vaccines are linked to autism.
On Thursday, Mr. Kennedy said at NewSnation that he intends to create a vaccine injury agency in diseases and prevention control centers. He said that the effort was a priority for him and would help bring the “golden standard flag” to the federal government.
The Parliamentary Council of Representatives concerned with government supervision and reform sent a list of Mr. Kennedy on Saturday, in search of records related to a list of procedures that it described as “exposing public health in the country by undermining routine vaccinations.” The committee asked him to provide records by April 14 regarding the termination of Dr. Marx.
The letter, signed by Gerald E. Conoli, a democratic in Virginia and a member classification member, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on re -financing to grants related to the frequency of vaccines and their use and providing information about the meetings of the canceled or late advisory committee. The message said: “I am deeply anxious because you continue to sow doubts regarding the effectiveness of vaccination.”
A HHS spokesman said in a statement on Friday night that Dr. Marx had no place in the Food and Drug Administration if he was not committed to transparency.
In his message, Dr. Marx mentioned the deadly losses of measles in light of Mr. Kennedy’s late advice on the need to fortify during the spread of many unjust people in Texas and other countries.
Dr. Marx wrote that the measles, “which killed more than 100,000 children who are not fortified last year in Africa and Asia,” due to complications, “were eliminated from our beaches” through the availability of large -scale vaccines.
Dr. Marx added that he was ready to address Mr. Kennedy’s concerns about the safety of vaccine and transparency with public meetings and work with the national academies of science, engineering and medicine, but was rejected.
“I have done everything that this administration could do with them in an attempt to restore confidence in the vaccines,” said Dr. Marx in the interview. “It has become clear that this is not what they want.”
Dr. Marx added that “leaving the Food and Drug Administration”, “a weight that was raised from me, because I was in an environment where it was escalating in a deeper and deeper way in danger.”
Ellen F. said. Siggal, founder of the Cancer Research Group, is a close ally of Dr. Marx, that “his leadership had an effective role in leading medical innovation and ensuring that life -saving treatments reach patients who need them more,” Siegal, founder of the Cancer Research Group, is a close ally of Dr. Marx. She said his departure “will create a big vacuum.”
John Kraouli, CEO of the Innovation in the field of biotechnology, the Biotechnology Industry Association, praised the leadership of Dr. Marx and added a warning about the future of the agency: “We are deeply concerned that the loss of driving in the field of food and drug management (FDA) will significantly affect the development of new transformational aspects to combat America.”
Dr. Marx directed the Food and Drug Administration vaccines program during the tumultuous years of the Coronverus virus, and directed the agency and its external consultants through a number of decisions regarding the type of evidence necessary to grant the emergency license to the vaccines produced under the beginning of the warp in the Trump administration, which helped Dr. Marx to start.
In June 2022, he defended a committee of external experts to consider the danger posed by the virus for children under the age of 5 years; The committee later voted that day to recommend the vaccines for that age group.
Dr. Marx said at that time: “We have to be careful because we are not anesthetic to the number of children’s deaths due to the huge number of old deaths here.”
Dr. Peter Hotz, a vaccine expert from Baylor College of Medicine, said he spoke with Dr. Marx regularly during the epidemic. He said: “He was unusually committed to using science to help the American people.” “He was one of the heroes of the epidemic, so I am sorry to see him go.”
Dr. Marx was looked skeptical by some in the FDA, including former members of his vaccine team. Most of the major organizers of the Agency’s vaccine office resigned in 2021 in part due to the efforts of the Biden administration in its favor. Speed the license From the virus of the virus of Pfizer and the license of the boots of COVID.
While Mr. Kennedy was pressing more study of vaccine injuries, Dr. Michael Ostohm, Director of the Center for Research and Policy of Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota, said this research was already a priority for decades.
He said: “I am afraid that this will be a way to confirm vaccine injuries in a completely incompatible manner with the real risks.”
Dr. Marx clearly shared these concerns. In his message, he expressed her desire to be the damage caused by the current administration limited.
“Amali,” he wrote, that during the coming years, the unprecedented attack ends on the scientific truth that negatively affected the public health in our nation so that our country’s citizens can take full advantage of progress in medical sciences. “