The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) former vaccine chief has claimed that he was forced out of his role after refusing to allow Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his team unrestricted access to a sensitive and influential vaccine safety database.
Speaking to The Associated Press in an interview published Monday, Dr. Peter Marks said that he tried to “make nice” and made every attempt to work with Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic.
Marks said the core of his work for Kennedy involved a “vaccine transparency action plan” that would allow the new health secretary’s team to access and read vaccine-related complaints via the government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Marks, however, refused to allow Kennedy’s team to directly edit or interfere with the data.
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