WASHINHON – The Supreme Food and Drug Administration official resigned and criticized the country’s best health official to allow “misleading information and lies” to direct his thinking behind the safety of vaccines.
Dr. Peter Marx sent a letter to the Acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner (FDA) Sarah Brenner on Friday, saying that he would resign and retire by April 5 as director of the Biology and Research Assessment Center.
In his message, which was obtained by the Associated Press, Marx said he was “ready to work” to address the concerns expressed by Robert F. Kennedy Junior about the safety of vaccinations. But he concluded that this is not possible.
“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,” he wrote.
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The US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services did not respond to the request for comment.
Marx offered the selection of resignation or shooting by Kennedy, according to a former FDA official who was aware of the discussions, which occurred provided that his identity was not disclosed because he had no permission to discuss the matter publicly.
Kennedy has a long history of spreading wrong information to combat al -Qahleh, although during the Senate confirmation sessions, he seemed to say he would not undermine vaccines. The Chairman of the Senate Health Committee promised that he would not change the current vaccine recommendations.
Since he became a secretary, Kennedy has pledged to check the safety of childhood vaccines, despite decades of evidence as safe and saved millions of lives.
Marx supervised the proxy review of the agency and approval of the Covid-19 vaccines and treatments during the epidemic.
Marx is attributed to the formulation of the name and concept of the “warp”, a effort that he efforts during the era of President Donald Trump to manufacture vaccines quickly while he was still tested for safety and effectiveness. The initiative reduced years of the regular development process.
Despite the success of the project, Trump has repeatedly criticized the Food and Drug Administration for not agreeing to the first shots soon. Trump told those close to 2020 that he would have been re -elected if the vaccine was available before election day.
Dr. Paul Ofit, a vaccine expert at the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, criticized what he called the “launch” of the signs.
“The release of Revis Junior to Peter Marx because it will not bend the knee in his wrong campaign, now allows the fox to guard the chicken house,” said Ofit. “It is a sad day for the children of America.”
The former commissioner for the food and drug course, Dr. Robert Calif, said that the issues that were raised in Marx’s resignation speech “must be frightening for anyone committed to the importance of evidence to direct policies and patient decisions.”
“I hope this communication will increase through academic, industry and government to enhance the importance of science and evidence,” he wrote.
The resignation follows the news on Friday that HHS plans to stop 10,000 workers and close entire agencies, including those that oversee billions of dollars in funds for addiction and community health centers throughout the country.
In a post on social media on Thursday, Kennedy criticized the department that he supervises as a “sprawling bureaucracy”. Also, the 82,000 workers were mistaken in the low health of Americans.
The resignation is the latest blow to the besieged health agency, which was threatened for weeks by demolishing workers and retirement and a return process to the chaotic office that left many employees without permanent offices, offices or other supplies. Last month, Jim Jones, Deputy Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration (FDA), resigned, pointing to the “random launch” of about 90 employees in his department, according to a copy of the resignation letter obtained by AP.
Marx, who could not be accessed for comment, also raised concerns in his message about “efforts that are currently taking place by some on the harmful health effects of vaccination” regarding “as well as” unprecedented assault on the scientific truth that negatively affected public health in our nation. “
He went on to detail the historical benefits of vaccinations dating back to George Washington and pointed to the continuous outbreak of measles as evidence of what could happen when doubts relate to science.
“The outbreak of the continuous measles is the multi -storey that reminds us in Texas, which reminds us of what happens when confidence in the established sciences behind public health and welfare well -being.”
The outbreak of measles, which could last for months, erupted now to Kansas and Ouyu after having disturbed more than 370 in Texas and New Mexico.
Public health experts said that if they reach other non -fortified societies across the United States, as it may be the case now in Kansas, the outbreak may last for a year and threaten to put the country as getting rid of the local spread of vaccine disease.
– The environment was informed of Boston. Board Peron from Washington, DC