Medical Xpress December 15, 2025
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...







