Dr. Vinay PrasadControversial FDA Vaccine Officer who was important for agency’s steps for Greenlight Kovid -19 boosterThe agency has left, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Wednesday.
HHS said, “Dr. Prasad did not want to be distracted to the FDA’s great work in Trump administration and has decided to return to California and spend more time with his family.” “We thank him for his service and many important reforms that he was able to achieve in his time in FDA.”
Prasad was serving as the Director of FDA of Center for Biological Evolution and Research from May from May, Dr. In place of Peter Marx, HHS Secretary Robert F. Was forced by Kennedy Junior. Prasad was later named as the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, absorbing the roles of other top-ranking FDA officers, which were released under the Trump administration.
In recent weeks, the right -wing influential Laura Lumor launched a social media campaign against Prasad, with his previous support for Democrats, including Sen Berney Sanders. Lumor called Prasad “with a vicious-trump record with a lifetime progressive” and wrote that “Prasad’s views are a slap for the conservative values of limited government, deragulation and economic freedom that you voted!”
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But in the weekend, FDA chief Marty Marks defended Prasad on Lumor’s comments, stating that it was said. Politico podcast That Prasad is one of the greatest scientists of our generation “impeccable scientist … is one of the greatest scientists of our generation.”
Prasad, a prolonged critic of FDA to provide emergency use authority for the Covid-19 vaccine booster, said “one of the most dangerous, Pro-Pharma regulators of the 21st century” and said that he was “either disabled or corrupt to authorize a booster without clinical, random data.”
In its three -month tenure in the FDA, the agency decided to limit the Kovid -19 vaccine recommendations to people aged 65 and older and others who are infected if they are infected if they are infected if they are infected, and manufacturers will need to do clinical tests to show whether the vaccines are of healthy small adults and children.
Earlier this month, FDA released records Prasad Overroad Career Staff was shown at the agency to limit the approval of the Kovid -19 shots from Novawaax and Modern.
Alexander Tin contributed to this report.
