An internal memo from the Food and Drug Administration states that at least 10 children died as a result of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
The findings were detailed [1] in a 3,000-word document written by Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and circulated inside the agency on Friday.
According to the memo, the review focused on 96 child deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
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Dr. Prasad wrote that “no fewer than 10” of the deaths were determined to have been caused by the vaccine.
“I am writing to report that OBPV career staff have found that at least 10 children have died after and because of receiving COVID-19 vaccination,” he stated.
The memo also described myocarditis as a major concern identified during the evaluation.
Dr. Prasad wrote that the condition affected younger individuals at higher rates than older adults.
“Unlike the COVID virus, which has a steep age gradient— being at least 1000 times more likely to kill an 80 year old than an 8 year old— myocarditis appeared to have the opposite pattern. Young, healthy boys and men— those least likely to experience bad covid outcomes— bore the greatest risk,” he wrote.
Dr. Prasad said he believed federal health agencies did not fully confront the implications for younger populations.
He stated that “the FDA and CDC abdicated their duty to the American people” by not addressing the risks to young boys with greater scrutiny.
As part of the memo, he summarized the results of the agency’s internal review, which categorized cases on a causality scale.
“In this scale ranging from certain to unlikely— certain, possible/ likely, and probable are broadly considered as related to the product.
The team has performed an initial analysis of 96 deaths between 2021 and 2024, and concludes that no fewer than 10 are related. If anything, this represents conservative coding, where vaccines are exculpated rather than indicted in cases of ambiguity. The real number is higher,” the memo said.
Dr. Prasad wrote that the findings mark a significant development in the government’s assessment of vaccine safety.
“This is a profound revelation. For the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children. Healthy 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,” he wrote.
“It is horrifying to consider that the US vaccine regulation, including our actions, may have harmed more children than we saved.”
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He added that the impact of mandates should be reconsidered in light of the documented cases.
“In many cases, such mandates were harmful. It is difficult to read cases where kids aged 7 to 16 may be dead as a result of covid vaccines. Did COVID-19 vaccine programs kill more healthy kids than it saved? We do not have reliable data estimating the absolute benefit (absolute risk reduction) regarding severe disease and death in healthy children from vaccine receipt.”