Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who helped establish the U.S. effort to rapidly develop Covid-19 vaccines, resigned on Friday.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Marks is stepping down amid pressure from the Trump administration and as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reshapes federal public health agencies and is poised to eliminate 10,000 employees, with the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expected to suffer a loss of 20 percent of their staff members.
“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks wrote in his resignation letter. “My hope is that during the coming years, the unprecedented assault on scientific truth that has adversely impacted…
