Last week, a leaked FDA memo acknowledged that at least ten children died “after and because of” the COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.
None of those children had been identified — until now.
One of them is now understood to be Ernesto Ramirez Jr., a 16-year-old from Texas who collapsed and died five days after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 shot.
“Junior,” as he is known, is among the cases at the center of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) internal investigation into pediatric deaths following COVID-19 vaccination.
For his father, Ernest Ramirez, the past four years have been consumed by grief, tireless campaigning and what he describes as a “living hell.”
Now, for the first time, he believes the FDA has acknowledged what he has always known — the vaccine took his child.
“That’s the poison that killed my son,” he told me.
A father fights for his son
Junior was healthy, athletic and inseparable from his dad. Ernest raised him alone.
“We were always together, we were never apart,” he said. “Like I’ve always said, he was my best friend … We were buddies.”
Five days after the Pfizer shot, Junior went to the park with a neighbor to play basketball.
“They started running and he just collapsed,” Ernest said.
Paramedics rushed him to the hospital, but attempts to revive him failed. Ernest still remembers the bluntness of the staff.
“Yeah, you can go home now, your son’s dead,” is how he recalls the doctor’s tone.
He could not return to the empty house.
At first, he had no idea the vaccine could have been involved. It wasn’t until cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough reviewed the records that Ernest heard the words that changed everything.
Hellbound and Down 