Katherine Dillinger<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than 700 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in the US, according to the World Health Organization.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a>The US Food and Drug Administration is looking into whether deaths \u201cacross multiple age groups\u201d have been related to Covid-19 vaccines, a spokesperson said Tuesday, weeks after a senior agency official claimed \u2014 without offering evidence \u2013 that Covid-19 vaccinations resulted in the deaths of 10 children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the US Department of Health and Human Services, said the FDA is conducting \u201ca thorough investigation\u201d but declined to offer details on what data sources are being used and what potential changes, if any, are being considered to Covid vaccine approval or marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Vinay Prasad, the FDA\u2019s chief medical and scientific officer and director of its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, claimed in a memo<\/a> late last month that \u201cHealthy young children 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prasad did not provide details about the 10 deaths or how the FDA came to that conclusion but pointed to \u201can initial analysis\u201d that examined 96 deaths and linked 10 to the Covid-19 vaccination. He also claimed that Covid \u201cwas never highly lethal for children\u201d and that the effects of it \u201care comparable\u201d to respiratory viruses for which there aren\u2019t annual vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 700 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in the US since they became available in late 2020, according to the World Health Organization<\/a>. The shots have been extensively tested and continually monitored for safety, and serious side effects<\/a> such as anaphylaxis or myocarditis have been generally rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FDA regulations require health care providers to report deaths after vaccination to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), even if it\u2019s not clear that vaccination was the cause of death. Members of the general public can also submit events to the database, which federal agencies use to generate further study on vaccine safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prasad said that as a result of the FDA analysis, the agency will adopt a new approval process for vaccines that will require more evidence of their safety and value before they can be marketed. Among the changes would be stricter requirements for authorization of vaccines used for pregnant women and trials for pneumonia vaccines that will need to prove the shots reduce disease, instead of showing that the vaccine produces enough antibodies to fight the illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The agency will also \u201crevise the annual flu vaccine framework,\u201d Prasad said, and \u201cwill re-appraise safety and be honest in vaccine labels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly raised doubts about the effectiveness of vaccines and previously founded the anti-vaccine group Children\u2019s Health Defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As secretary, Kennedy has slashed funding<\/a> for mRNA vaccine development, replaced the members<\/a> of the vaccine advisory committee at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and directed the CDC<\/a> to change its website to include false claims<\/a> that link autism and vaccines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Katherine Dillinger More than 700 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in the US, according to the World Health Organization.\u00a0 The US Food and Drug Administration is looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748,761,289,425,1,1362,972,973,974,607,608],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-child-health","category-concerns","category-long-haul-disease","category-pediatric-health","category-uncategorized","category-vaccine-deaths","category-vaccine-enhanced-disease","category-vaccine-failure","category-vaccine-long-term-safety","category-vaccine-news","category-vaccine-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14129,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127\/revisions\/14129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}