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marmar

(79,063 posts)
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 09:54 AM 12 hrs ago

FDA claims on COVID-19 vaccine safety are unsupported by reliable data - and could severely hinder vaccine access


FDA claims on COVID-19 vaccine safety are unsupported by reliable data – and could severely hinder vaccine access
Published: December 3, 2025 4:16pm EST

Frank Han
Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Illinois Chicago


(The Conversation) The Food and Drug Administration is seeking to drastically change procedures for testing vaccine safety and approving vaccines, based on unproven claims that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines caused the death of at least 10 children.

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Citing an internal, unpublished review, the memo, written by the agency’s top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, attributes the children’s deaths to myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle. And it says the deaths were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, but provides no evidence that the vaccines caused the deaths.

The death of children due to an unsafe vaccine is a serious allegation. I am a pediatric cardiologist who has studied the link between COVID-19 vaccines and heart-related side effects such as myocarditis in children. To my knowledge, studies to date have shown such side effects are rare, and severe outcomes even more so. However, I am open to new evidence that could change my mind.

But without sufficient justification and solid evidence, restricting access to an approved vaccine and changing well-established procedures for testing vaccines would carry serious consequences. These moves would limit access for patients, create roadblocks for companies and worsen distrust in vaccines and public health. ....................(more)

https://theconversation.com/fda-claims-on-covid-19-vaccine-safety-are-unsupported-by-reliable-data-and-could-severely-hinder-vaccine-access-271028




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FDA claims on COVID-19 vaccine safety are unsupported by reliable data - and could severely hinder vaccine access (Original Post) marmar 12 hrs ago OP
Stop lying................ Lovie777 12 hrs ago #1
where the ever loving fuck is this misadministration trying to drag the world to? NewHendoLib 12 hrs ago #2
FUCK this regime. Ferrets are Cool 11 hrs ago #3
Waging a war of lies, cruelty, hatred and Hey Joe 11 hrs ago #4
Ten? Is that their benchmark? Baitball Blogger 11 hrs ago #5
Thank you MustLoveBeagles 8 hrs ago #6

NewHendoLib

(61,496 posts)
2. where the ever loving fuck is this misadministration trying to drag the world to?
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 09:59 AM
12 hrs ago

Who actually benefits from plastering the world with bullshit like this?

Hey Joe

(339 posts)
4. Waging a war of lies, cruelty, hatred and
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 10:49 AM
11 hrs ago

rank incompetence on the American people and government.
If we ever recover from this onslaught of greed and corruption, it will take years and many deaths to do it.
Come on midterm elections!

Baitball Blogger

(51,563 posts)
5. Ten? Is that their benchmark?
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 11:12 AM
11 hrs ago

So, how many babies have died from the measles because they were unvaccinated?

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