Marks' ejection produced the usual ludicrously biased coverage from the corporate press. Former FDA boss Scott Gottlieb gushed that Marks "presided over an extraordinary period of medical progress, spearheading breakthroughs" in numerous areas. The Washington Post touted that quote but failed to mention that Gottlieb is on the Pfizer Board of Directors—and Marks practically gave Pfizer a license to print money.

On September 9, 2021, President Joe Biden dictated that more than one hundred million Americans must get COVID-vaccine injections. But the Food and Drug Administration finding behind that order, the official certification of the jabs as "safe and effective," was the result of a bureaucratic bait-and-switch, as I reported in the New York Post on April 15, 2023.

In December 2020, the FDA approved COVID vaccines on an emergency-use basis. That ruling provided an absolute waiver of liability for vaccine manufacturers for any harm their products inflicted. The following month, Joe Biden became president and the White House touted the vaccines as national salvation from COVID.

But it soon became clear that many Americans were hesitating to get jabbed, in part because the FDA approval was solely for emergency use. Many Americans have long been wary of vaccines, including cynics who avoid annual flu shots that are notoriously ineffective.

Biden championed vaccines with evangelical fervor. "You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations," he proclaimed during a July 21, 2021 CNN town hall. Biden's claim was the single biggest shard of disinformation during the pandemic.

The effectiveness of the COVID vaccines was already collapsing. The week after Biden's promise, headlines revealed that almost four hundred fully vaccinated people contracted COVID on holiday visits to Provincetown, Massachusetts. A few days later, The Washington Post and New York Times published leaked CDC documents warning that vaccines were utterly failing to stop COVID transmission. A Mayo Clinic study found that vaccine efficacy had fallen to 42%. But Biden's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was covering up the debacle by refusing to count "breakthrough" COVID infections that did not result in death or hospitalization. The Washington Post castigated the CDC for withholding COVID information, noting that its "overly rosy assessments of the vaccines' effectiveness against delta [variant] may have lulled Americans into a false sense of security."