FDA Official Proposes ‘Path Forward’ For Vaccines After Linking COVID Shot To Deaths Of 10 Kids

The memo has been criticized for lacking evidence.

A Food and Drug Administration official proposed new vaccine measures after linking the deaths of at least 10 children to the COVID-19 vaccine, according to an internal memo dated Friday and published by The Washington Post.

“These deaths are related to vaccination (likely/probable/possible attribution made by staff),” wrote Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “That number is certainly an underestimate due to underreporting, and inherent bias in attribution.”

Prasad told staff that FDA senior advisor (and COVID-19 vaccine critic) Tracy Beth Høeg began an investigation over the summer into deaths of children that were reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The Centers for Disease Control notes on the VAERS website that “anyone” can submit a report to the system’s database, so it ”may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable.”

Prasad said he directed FDA staff to analyze 96 deaths reported between 2021 and 2024, and that the analysis found “no fewer” than 10 were related to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Prasad called the findings “a profound revelation,” noting that “for the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children.”