Advisory Board December 2, 2025
The top vaccine regulator at FDA last week issued a memo saying COVID-19 vaccines caused at least 10 deaths in children, a move that comes days after CDC updated its website retracting its longstanding position that vaccines don’t cause autism.
FDA says COVID-19 vaccine caused at least 10 deaths in children
In a memo sent to FDA staff on Friday, Vinay Prasad, director of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) said COVID-19 vaccines caused at least 10 deaths in children and added that regulatory requirements for new vaccines would be heightened as a result.
Prasad said that this past summer, Tracy Beth Høeg — a senior adviser for clinical sciences at CBER who previously co-authored a journal article...
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