FDA to raise hurdles for vaccines, faulting COVID shots for 10 kids' deaths

FDA to raise hurdles for vaccines, faulting COVID shots for 10 kids' deaths

Rob Stein

Sydney Lupkin

November 29, 2025 / 11:49 am

The Food and Drug Administration intends to get tougher on vaccine approvals, as top officials raised concerns about the risk of COVID vaccines for children.

Speaking on Fox News Saturday morning, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said the agency would no longer "rubber-stamp new products that don't work," claiming it made a "mockery of science."

Makary's comments came the day after FDA's top vaccine regulator, Dr. Vinay Prasad , told his team the agency would change its annual flu vaccine framework, update vaccine labels to be "honest," and make other changes to how it reviews vaccines, according to contents of an internal email reviewed by NPR and