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A senior vaccine official in the United States Drug and Food Administration (FDA) was forced to get out of work, reports US media.
Peter Marks offered on Friday his letter of renunciation of health and human services officials (HHS), after receiving an option between giving up or being fired.
“It has been clear that the truth and transparency do not want the secretary, but wishes the subordinate confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks wrote in a renunciation letter, obtained by several US media, referring to the new leader of the Robert F Kennedy Jr. agency.
Marks was among health professionals who helped develop COVID-19 vaccines in the first Trump administration.
In a statement to the BBC, the HHS replied that if Marks “does not want to be behind restoring science to its gold standard and promoting radical transparency, then it does not take place in the FDA under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy.”
His resignation enters into force on April 5.
In his letter, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Marks said he was going with a “heavy heart” and pointed out that he was worried about the growing outbreak of measles in Texas.
“(ES) reminds us of what happens when confidence in well established science underlies public health and well -being is undermined,” Marks wrote, according to the points of sale that the letter obtained.
Until Friday, two people have died of measles and 523 cases have been informed in the US, 400 of which are in Texas.
Marks has served as director of the evaluation and research of the Biological Center within the FDA since 2016. He has been with the FDA since 2012.
Kennedy, who leads the HHS, which supervises the FDA, is a well -known vaccine skeptic that has a History of the propagation of health information that scientists say it is false.
Earlier this week, Kennedy announced plans to restructure HHS, in part by reducing 10,000 employees, including those who work in the FDA and the centers for disease control and prevention (CDC).
