The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will present data linking COVID-19 vaccines to the deaths of dozens of children.
According to several media reports, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will meet Thursday and Friday to review and recommend several vaccines, including this fall’s updated Covid shots.
The FDA is basing its claim on data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a public database run jointly by the FDA and CDC.
The reports come after FDA Commissioner Marty Makary told CNN last week that the agency is investigating reports of healthy children dying after receiving Covid vaccines.
“We’ve been looking into the VAERS database of self-reports that there have been children that have died from the Covid vaccine,” Makary said.
“We’re going to release a report in the coming few weeks and we’re going to let people know. We’re doing an intense investigation.”