FDA Report Links Potential Risks to COVID Vaccines in Children, Sparks Debate
Washington D.C. โข – A leaked internal memo fromโข the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)โค has ignited controversy after suggesting a potentialโ link โฃbetween COVID-19 vaccines and the โdeathsโข of โat least ten โchildren, โขaccording to reports. The โฃmemo also raisesโฃ concerns about whether vaccine mandates may have caused more harm than good, particularly for healthy โฃyoungโข children.
The document states: “Healthy young โฃchildren 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.” It further reads: “It is horrifying to consider that theโข U.S. vaccine regulation, including โour actions, may โhave โharmed more children than we saved,” while acknowledging the agency “does โnot haveโ reliable data estimating the absoluteโ benefit” of โคvaccine receipt.
The claims within the memo have been swiftly challenged byโ leading medical โคexperts. Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, โฃvice chair of the IDSA Global Health Committee and clinical professor at Stanford โขUniversity, โ wrote on X: “There isโฃ NO evidence linking COVID-19 vaccines to deaths in children. There โIS evidence thatโ COVID causes serious harm-including long COVID, MIS-C, cardiac complications and diabetes. This administration’s actions are dangerous, and the damage toโข the public and children might potentially be irreversible.”
Dr. โขPaul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases โคat the Children’sโ Hospital of Philadelphia, criticized theโ FDA’s announcement as “irresponsible,” telling Newsweek the agencyโข needs to “push forward theโ data that backs up” it’s claim. He โemphasized the difficulty in establishing a definitive link, stating theโ needโข for autopsy dataโ confirming myocarditis as the cause โof death, evidence of anโฃ immune response specifically to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (and not prior infection), and ruling out other viral causes of myocarditis.
FDA chief medical andโข scientific officer Vinay Prasad acknowledged the overall benefits of vaccines but cautioned against a blanket approach, stating, according to CNN: “I have no doubt that manny vaccines have saved millions of lives globally, and many have benefits that far exceed risks, but vaccines are like any other medical product. Theโข right drug given toโข the right patient at the right time is great, but theโ same drug โขcan be inappropriately given, causing harm.”
Lucky Tran, director โof science communications at Columbia university, posted onโฃ X, calling the memo “reckless,” and โขstating: “Thisโค is soโ reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have savedโ millions of lives.”
The โFDA has not yet โdetailed how thes concerns will impact its vaccine approvalโ process moving forward. The situation remains fluid as the agency faces mounting pressure to substantiate its claims and โaddressโ the growing concerns โฃsurroundingโ vaccine safety and efficacy.
