Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

Dr Peter Marks was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the FDA’s approval of life-saving vaccinesA senior health official in the US, who was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of life-saving vaccines, has resigned abruptly, citing the health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s “misinformation and lies”.Dr Peter Marks served as the FDA’s top vaccine official. He had been lauded by Donald Trump during the US president’s first term for his role in Operation Warp Speed, the initiative that developed, manufactured and helped distribute the Covid-19 vaccines. Continue reading...