According to sources, including The Washington Post, the American food and drug administration FDA is to present findings that allegedly link the deaths of 25 children to their COVID-19 vaccination. The findings will be presented to ACIP, a committee at the infectious disease control agency CDC, which will then issue updated vaccine recommendations.
Both authorities are part of the health and social department, which is led by the prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr.
The problem, according to several public health experts, is that it is not possible to draw such conclusions based on the data that the presentation is based on. The information comes from an open database that is intended to provide authorities with clues about topics to research further.
Anyone - companies, doctors, patients, and ordinary citizens - can submit a report of side effects to medicines.
"I can swear on a whole pile of bibles that we have reviewed every autopsy report without finding anything. If someone has hidden something from us, I do not know what they are referring to," says an FDA employee who spoke freely on the promise of anonymity to NBC News.
According to The New York Times, the database contains several deaths that obviously have nothing to do with the vaccine. An extreme example is a child who committed suicide with a firearm. In another case, a report of a 13-year-old who showed flu-like symptoms before death was written by someone who had read about it on a news site.
This summer, Robert F Kennedy Jr fired 17 members with expertise in diseases and vaccine research from ACIP. Among the replacements are several prominent vaccine skeptics.
