Breaking: FDA’s top vaccine regulator forced out

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Peter Marks, FDA's top vaccine regulator, forced out

By Matthew Herper, Helen Branswell, Usha Lee McFarling, Lizzy Lawrence, and Jason Mast

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Peter Marks, the top FDA official who oversaw vaccines, gene therapies, and the blood supply, resigned Friday after being told by Trump administration officials he would be fired if he did not step down, according to press reports and people familiar with the situation.

In his resignation letter, which was obtained by STAT, Marks said that he had attempted to answer the concerns of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., regarding the safety of common childhood vaccinations.

"However, 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.

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