Medical Xpress December 15, 2025
Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

How the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determine whether a vaccine has resulted in the death of a vaccine recipient became the focus of renewed scrutiny by the press and public last month. In November 2025, one of the FDA’s chief vaccine regulators, Vinay Prasad, reported in a memo that although the FDA “never publicly admitted it,” children in the United States died as a result of COVID-19 vaccination.

The public health community, press, and public will know more about how FDA researchers arrived at this conclusion when the sources and methods they used to tie COVID-19 vaccination to the deaths are revealed. What is known at this point is that...

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