The MAHA-aligned Food and Drug Administration official responsible for overseeing vaccine and gene therapy approvals has been forced to resign following a public pressure campaign brought by MAGA provocateur Laura Loomer.
Dr. Vinay Prasad was chosen in May to replace the outgoing head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation, Dr. Peter Marks, who led the division for 13 years and shaped the Operation Warp Speed effort to rapidly develop COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist at the University of California San Francisco with a large social media following, became a prominent critic of the COVID-19 vaccine and opposed pandemic-era mask policies, CNN reported.
That apparently endeared him to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who