FDA Confirms Child Deaths Linked to Covid Vaccines
FDA safety officers have confirmed that children have died after receiving Covid‑19 mRNA vaccines, a finding the agency has yet to publicly acknowledge.
On Dec. 5, Dr. Meghna Alimchandani, head of the FDA safety team, emailed senior officials urging a label change to warn of fatal myocarditis risk and announced a presentation at the next FDA meeting.
Ten months later the agency has taken no action to warn parents, despite the clear safety signal.
Denial of Harm
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has recorded more than a million injury reports since the vaccines launched, but CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and FDA Commissioner Robert Califf stated in 2023 that “reports of adverse events do not mean a vaccine caused the event.”
Walensky later dismissed concerns in a congressional hearing, saying a post‑vaccination truck accident would be logged in VAERS.
Peer‑reviewed autopsies published in 2022 and 2023 document children and adults dying from heart inflammation after mRNA vaccination, with five of 35 German deaths classified as “likely or possible” vaccine‑associated myocarditis.
Patient‑safety advocate Kim Witczak and a group of academics submitted a citizen’s petition asking the FDA to update vaccine labels; the agency denied almost every request, a decision recorded in a letter signed by FDA official Dr. Peter Marks.
Unearthing Buried Reports
After Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg joined the FDA as an advisor in early 2025, she uncovered internal investigations that identified at least ten child deaths following Covid vaccination, a fact she raised at a September 2025 meeting.
The meeting’s discussion was leaked to the New York Times, which framed Høeg’s findings as a political attack on the agency’s “exhaustive” safety work.
In an email to FDA staff, Dr. Vinay Prasad wrote that career officials had identified ten probable or possible child deaths after vaccination, calling it “a profound revelation.”
The same email was leaked to the Times, which again suggested political motives without noting that Marks had previously denied a citizen’s petition to disclose the data and that a 2024 House report concluded he helped remove safety researchers to accelerate vaccine approval.
Former FDA officials Robert Califf and Janet Woodcock, authors of a New England Journal of Medicine essay, have ties to Pfizer, the vaccine manufacturer whose product the FDA safety team linked to child deaths.
Times Turnaround
Witczak said the Times, once a champion of drug‑safety transparency on Vioxx, Avandia and Risperdal, now overlooks safety officers’ reports on Covid vaccines, violating its historic stance.
The newspaper’s 2004 coverage of suppressed antidepressant suicide data forced the FDA to acknowledge risks, illustrating a pattern of press‑driven transparency that it appears to abandon today.
Failure to Inform
Health experts warn that media politicization of the small but real risks of Covid vaccines is keeping parents in the dark, undermining informed consent.
An HHS official, speaking off‑record, said Washington and the press reacted to Vinay Prasad’s revelations by punishing him rather than regulating pediatric vaccine use.
Sen. Ron Johnson pledged to continue investigating hidden vaccine harms, noting that his team has obtained over a million pages of documents on Peter Marks and that the senator finds Marks unrepentant about the handling of risk data.
