The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines are linked to adult deaths.
“FDA is doing a thorough investigation, across multiple age groups, of deaths potentially related to COVID vaccines,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Department spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement obtained by The Hill.
The investigation comes as FDA Chief Medical Officer and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Vinay Prasad wrote in a memo to staff that “at least 10 children have died after and because of receiving COVID-19 vaccination. These deaths are related to vaccination (likely/probable/possible attribution made by staff). That number is certainly an underestimate due to underreporting, and inherent bias in attribution.”
“For the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children,” Prasad wrote. “Healthy young children who faced tremendously low risk of death were coerced, at the behest of the Biden administration, via school and work mandates, to receive a vaccine that could result in death. In many cases, such mandates were harmful. It is difficult to read cases where kids aged 7 to 16 may be dead as a result of covid vaccines.”
“There is no doubt that without this FDA commissioner, we would not have performed this investigation and identified this safety concern,” he added. “This fact also demands serious introspection and reform. Why were these deaths not actively reviewed in real time? Why did it take until 2025 to perform this analysis, and take necessary further actions? Deaths were reported between 2021 and 2024, and ignored for years.”
As the FDA is expanding its probe, President Trump has called for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and acting CDC Director Jim O’Neill to conduct a comprehensive review of how the U.S. vaccine schedule compares to those in other developed nations.
