FDA official plans to change vaccine approval process

CNN —

A senior Food and Drug Administration official on Friday said the agency will change its vaccine approval process, alleging that COVID-19 vaccination resulted in the deaths of 10 children.

In an internal memo obtained by CNN, Dr. Vinay Prasad — the FDA's chief medical and scientific officer and the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research — claimed, "Healthy young children who faced tremendously low risk of death were coerced, at the behest of the Biden administration, via school and work mandates, to receive a vaccine that could result in death."

Prasad did not provide details about the deaths or how the FDA came to that conclusion, but pointed to "an initial analysis" that examined 96 deaths and linked 10 to the COVID-19 vaccination. He also claimed that COVI