{"id":10980,"date":"2025-12-03T18:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10980"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:01:59","slug":"experts-say-top-fda-officials-claim-that-covid-vaccines-caused-kids-deaths-requires-more-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/03\/experts-say-top-fda-officials-claim-that-covid-vaccines-caused-kids-deaths-requires-more-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts say top FDA official\u2019s claim that Covid vaccines caused kids\u2019 deaths requires more evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/29\/covid-vaccine-deaths-fda-memo-vinay-prasad\/\">STAT<\/a> Vinay Prasad ties 10 deaths to the shots, calls for stricter vaccine regulation, in leaked memo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration\u2019s top vaccine regulator asserted in an email to staff sent Friday that the Covid-19 vaccine caused at least 10 deaths in children and called for changes to the way the agency regulates vaccines. But experts told STAT they are skeptical of the memo\u2019s \u201cextraordinary\u201d claim because it was not presented with detailed data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA\u2019s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), said in the email that regulatory requirements for new vaccines would be heightened as a result of the deaths.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT Vinay Prasad ties 10 deaths to the shots, calls for stricter vaccine regulation, in leaked memo The Food and Drug Administration\u2019s top vaccine regulator asserted in an email to staff sent Friday that the Covid-19 vaccine caused at least 10 deaths in children and called for changes to the way the agency regulates vaccines. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10981,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions\/10981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}