Kennedy Forces Out FDA’s Top Vaccine Scientist

The Washington Post reports:

The Trump administration on Friday pushed out Peter Marks [photo], the nation’s top vaccine regulator and an architect of the U.S. program to rapidly develop coronavirus vaccines, a move that comes as HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues his overhaul of the nation’s health and science agencies.

Marks, who joined the Food and Drug Administration in 2012 and had overseen its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research since 2016, was offered the choice to resign or be fired. He opted to resign, with an effective departure date of April 5.

Marks is leaving his post with a “heavy heart,” he wrote in his resignation letter Friday. The longtime regulator wrote that he was particularly worried about the measles outbreak in Texas, which “reminds us of what happens when confidence in well-established science underlying public health and well-being is undermined.”

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Vaccinate your kids, folks. A lot of people are going to get sick and die from preventable diseases because this is where America is right now – in freefall.

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist

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