STAT+: The White House quits keep on coming

John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of health care. He is also the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter . You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. My colleague Brittany Trang calculates that Vinay Prasad lasted fewer than eight Scaramuccis at the FDA — a Scaramucci is a rough measurement typically assumed to be 11 days. The STAT team, especially Lizzy Lawrence, busted their butts on FDA reporting this week. Tip jar: [email protected] or John_Wilkerson.07 on Signal. Advertisement The harder they fall Vinay Prasad, who led the FDA’s biologics center and was the agency’s chief medical and scientific officer, is out. Lizzy has the story on his precipitous fall.