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Twelve former U.S. FDA commissioners said on Wednesday they were deeply concerned about proposed changes to U.S. vaccine regulation by the agency's chief scientific officer and the details of his assertion that the COVID-19 vaccine killed 10 children.
Concern about that link, particularly relating to teenage boys and young men, has been a key argument against administering mRNA-based COVID vaccines in children.
Vinay Prasad, a top FDA official, blamed COVID shots for playing a role in the deaths of 10 children in a memo he sent to agency staff.
The agency’s top vaccine regulator proposed broad changes, claiming that a new review linked 10 children’s deaths to the Covid vaccine. But public health experts questioned the findings, wanting to examine the data.
An effort to include autism cases could bankrupt the program. The secretary’s anti-vaccine allies prefer it collapse.