A FORMER top US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine official ignored evidence that Covid-19 vaccines caused serious injuries, and dismissed the pleas of people injured by the vaccines, all while reassuring the public the shots were safe, documents published today on TheRealPeterMarks.com website reveal.
The website hosts public statements by Peter Marks, MD, PhD, recordings of his calls with vaccine-injured individuals, transcripts and previously unreleased FDA records.
Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), React19 and Follow the Silenced — organizations that advocate for the vaccine-injured — obtained the documents through Freedom of Information Act requests and other legal work.
Dr Danice Hertz, a retired gastroenterologist injured by the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, said she hopes the website reveals the side of Marks that the media ignores. Hertz said:
‘We want to set the record straight about Marks. The media is misinformed about him and has falsely represented him as a hero. In my opinion, he is far from a hero. He is a dishonest, corrupt man whose allegiance has been to the vaccine manufacturers and not to the safety of the people.’
On March 28, Marks resigned as director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) under pressure from his new boss, US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
He has since made several appearances on mainstream media, defending his record and attacking Kennedy.
React19 co-chair Dr Joel Wallskog, a Wisconsin orthopaedic surgeon injured by the Covid-19 vaccines, accused Marks of lying during media interviews.
‘He is a liar and fearful of the truth getting out,’ Wallskog said. ‘The best defence is a good offense.’
Wallskog and Brianne Dressen, a vaccine-injury victim and co-chair of React19, said that the media failed to ask the former FDA executive key questions.
Wallskog said he wants to know why Marks ‘refused’ to give Kennedy the vaccine injury data he requested. Dressen said she wants to ask Marks ‘about the countless lives negatively impacted by the covid vaccines.’
‘We brought the truth front and centre to Marks, and he refused to see it,’ Dressen said. ‘His decisions not to disclose highly reported injuries had devastating impacts on the medical community’s ability to recognize and treat injuries.’ As a result, she said, ‘countless lives’ were lost and people were ‘permanently harmed’.
Dressen said Marks’ ‘real tagline is “profits over people”.’
In an April 13 interview on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’, Marks told host Margaret Brennan, ‘You’re talking to the person who came up with Operation Warp Speed.’
Operation Warp Speed was the Government’s public-private partnership responsible for facilitating and accelerating the development, manufacture and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. As the person responsible for that operation, Marks would have been privy to warning signs on the possible dangers of the new Covid-19 vaccine.
Documents on TheRealPeterMarks.com site reveal that Marks knew about adverse events following vaccinations as early as October 2020, less than two months before the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines received emergency use authorization (EUA).
Dressen said she was ‘astonished’ that Marks ignored those warning signs and instead promoted the Government’s ‘safe and effective’ narrative.
‘He knew very well that there were serious problems with the Covid vaccines,’ Dressen said. ‘What astonished me was how he can say it with such resolve.’
The documents posted on TheRealPeterMarks.com show that Marks ignored reports and studies on Covid-19 vaccine injuries sustained by children, and that he claimed such reports were ‘sensationalized’.
For example:
- During a call in May 2022 with vaccine-injury victims, Marks suggested that child deaths following Covid-19 vaccination must be reported because the vaccines are under EUA. Yet, during a 2021 call with FDA stakeholders, Marks said child deaths post-vaccination are ‘very sensationalized’ and were unrelated to the vaccines.
- On January 3, 2022, a letter from the Siri & Glimstad law firm warned Marks about adverse events in vaccinated children. Yet that day, the FDA extended the EUA for Pfizer’s Covid-19 booster to children ages 12 to 15.
- ICAN filed a citizen petition in May 2022, urging Marks to revoke the EUA for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for children. A month later, the FDA extended the EUA to children as young as 6 months — even though Marks responded to the petition that day, acknowledging adverse events in children.
- The FDA authorized a fourth dose of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines for some groups of people, including immunocompromised children ages 12 and up, four days after the Journal of Pediatrics published a study of children who developed myopericarditis following Covid-19 vaccination.
Dressen called out Marks for his handling of a prominent case of childhood vaccine injury involving Maddie de Garay, a 16-year-old who was seriously injured by the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in January 2021.
In June 2021, Marks accepted Pfizer’s finding that de Garay’s injuries were unrelated to the vaccine.
Marks received further updates about de Garay’s condition over the next few months, including statements by de Garay’s mother at an October 2021 meeting of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.
But in March 2022, Marks said de Garay’s injuries were not vaccine-related and he denied her parents’ request for a meeting. ‘They took Pfizer’s word for it, then internally gaslit her,’ Dressen said.
Transcripts of Marks’ meetings with vaccine-injury victims showed that he repeatedly rejected safety concerns, or safety signals, related to the Covid-19 shots.
‘Marks was continually moving the goalpost — it didn’t matter how we communicated the data, didn’t matter how many hoops we jumped through,’ Dressen said.
For example, Marks was repeatedly informed about the prevalence of neurological injuries post-vaccination, including in emails and reports he received in February, March, April and August of 2021.
Marks claimed in a September 2021 email to Dressen that there were no safety signals for neurological injuries. He did not take action in response to several reports in late 2021 and early 2022 on the prevalence of such injuries.
‘We spoon-fed their own data to them, showing exactly where the problem is, and still, Marks insisted they couldn’t see it,’ Dressen said.
‘We know through our work at React19 that neurological adverse events are the most common,’ Wallskog said.
Other examples highlighted in the documents include:
- During a call in late 2022, Dr Narayan Nair, then-director of CBER’s Division of Pharmacovigilance, acknowledged a safety signal for neuropathy in young women. In the same call, however, Marks said this signal has ‘not been possible to tease out.’
- In April 2021, a peer-reviewed paper described the case of a vaccinated person who experienced small fibre neuropathy following Covid-19 vaccination. It identified a successful treatment.
- An August 2021 analysis of VAERS data showed that compared to the annual average of other vaccinations, there were 17 times more reports of serious injuries and 42 times more deaths reported after Covid-19 vaccines.
Marks also repeatedly denied the existence of safety signals for multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS). In an email from September 2022, Dressen told Marks that MIS occurs at a higher rate than thrombotic thrombocytopenia syndrome, which was associated with the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) Covid-19 vaccineand led to a pause in its administration.
However, in a call three days later, Marks said there was not enough data to ‘make a clear association’ between MIS and the Covid-19 vaccines.
In several instances, Marks expressed confusion as to why the vaccine-injured were having difficulty receiving medical care for their conditions. Yet he also reportedly appeared indifferent to the victims’ plights.
Dressen and Wallskog pointed to several instances when Marks appeared to act disrespectfully toward vaccine injury victims, notably blowing off an August 2021 meeting with vaccine-injured people and doctors.
Dressen said the meeting, scheduled three weeks in advance, was held the same day the Pfizer Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine received full FDA approval. ‘He was busy approving Comirnaty,’ Dressen said.
Marks said in an email at the time he missed the meeting due to ‘urgent matters related to the ongoing pandemic.’
On November 2, 2021, Marks skipped a Covid-19 vaccine injury roundtable hosted by Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), even though Johnson invited the FDA to attend. Marks did not respond to other emails from vaccine injury victims and attorneys in 2021.
According to Dressen and Wallskog, during other meetings and calls, Marks appeared unmoved by the stories recounted by the vaccine-injured. Wallskog said he acted ‘cold and calculated’. Dressen claimed Marks had a ‘stone-cold’ demeanour and he was visibly performing other work while the injured shared their stories.
This article appeared in the Defender on May 6, 2025, and is republished by kind permission.
