Vinay Prasad, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, reportedly authored a memo stating the agency has identified 10 pediatric deaths from 2021-24 directly linked to COVID-19 vaccines.

The memo, obtained by The Washington Post, has not been independently confirmed by Scripps News. It is unclear how the FDA determined the vaccines caused the deaths.

During an interview with Fox News on Saturday, FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary suggested the memo could lead to changes in the approval process for COVID-19, flu and other vaccines.

“We’re not just going to rubber-stamp new products that don’t work, that fail in a clinical trial,” Makary told Fox News. “It makes a mockery of science if we’re just going to rubber-stamp things with no da

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