(RightWingJournal.com) – The FDA has finally admitted what many parents feared all along: COVID-19 vaccines killed American children, marking a stunning reversal from years of federal health authorities dismissing such concerns.
Story Highlights
- FDA internal memo confirms at least 10 child deaths linked to COVID-19 vaccines
- Agency promises stricter vaccine approval standards after years of “rubber-stamping”
- Investigation examined 96 pediatric death reports from 2021-2024
- Trump administration FDA leadership challenges previous agency consensus on vaccine safety
FDA Acknowledges Vaccine-Related Pediatric Deaths
Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, sent an internal memo to staff revealing that career scientists identified “no fewer than 10” child deaths related to COVID-19 vaccination. The memo represents the first public acknowledgment by the FDA that these vaccines may have caused pediatric fatalities, a conclusion the agency had never previously admitted despite years of vaccine administration to children.
Prasad declared in his memo that “this is a profound revelation” and stated that “for the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children.” The analysis examined 96 death reports involving children submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System between 2021 and 2024, with myocarditis cited as a possible cause in several cases.
Trump Administration Promises Regulatory Reform
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced the agency would implement stricter vaccine approval standards, declaring on Fox News that the FDA would no longer “rubber-stamp” vaccines without strong evidence. This represents a dramatic shift from the previous administration’s approach, which Makary argued “undermined public trust” in vaccine safety oversight.
The investigation was conducted under Trump’s new FDA leadership, which has signaled a more critical approach to vaccine regulation. Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, a senior adviser for clinical sciences at the agency, independently began investigating pediatric death reports during summer 2025 and concluded that children had indeed died after vaccination, an assessment never publicly admitted by the Biden-era FDA.
Previous Administration Failed American Families
Throughout the COVID-19 vaccination campaign for children that began in 2021, the FDA and CDC maintained that benefits outweighed risks for pediatric populations while dismissing parental concerns about safety. The Trump administration’s investigation revealed that the true number of vaccine-related child deaths is “certainly an underestimate” because the reporting system relies on voluntary submissions and analysts used “conservative coding” that tended to rule out vaccines when ambiguity existed.
Prasad indicated the FDA would require more definitive data for vaccines administered during pregnancy and plans to reform annual influenza vaccine regulation. The agency may also examine whether multiple shots should be given simultaneously, potentially disrupting the current childhood vaccine schedule that many conservatives view as government overreach into parental medical decisions.
Copyright 2025, rightwingjournal.com
