BREAKING: FDA Launches Investigation Into COVID-Era D*aths
The Food and Drug Administration has launched a sweeping new investigation into whether COVID‑19 vaccines may be linked to deaths across multiple age groups, including adults and children, marking a dramatic shift in federal vaccine oversight.
This probe follows the circulation of an internal November memo from Dr. Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s lead vaccine regulator, that directly informed agency staff that about 10 children’s deaths were linked to COVID‑19 shots after initial analysis of reported fatalities.
According to a Department of Health and Human Services spokesman, Andrew Nixon, the investigation will be “thorough” and examine the safety of the COVID‑19 vaccines across all age groups—not just those under 18—reflecting growing concern about vaccine safety.
Prasad’s memo revealed that the FDA had examined roughly 96 deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and determined at least 10 could be related to COVID‑19 vaccination, a conclusion many observers say demands transparency and accountability.
The memo stated in blunt terms that “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,” laying blame on federal policy rather than parental choice.
The memo quoted CNN when characterizing the serious concern that vaccines were being administered to children who faced minimal risk from COVID‑19 itself, especially given what Prasad described as comparisons to typical respiratory viruses.
No details have been publicly released regarding the identities of the deceased, including which vaccine manufacturers were involved, the ages of the children, or whether preexisting conditions played a role, leaving crucial questions unanswered.
Prasad’s internal communication also revealed that as a direct result of these troubling findings, the FDA plans to overhaul its vaccine approval process, requiring significantly more evidence of safety and efficacy before new vaccines can be marketed to the public.
In a historic move earlier this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its immunization schedule to remove the COVID‑19 vaccine as a recommended shot, shifting toward “individual‑based decision making” for adults and children alike.
This policy change was adopted to align with recommendations from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and it reflects growing acknowledgement within federal public health agencies that the blanket COVID‑19 vaccine mandate approach may not be sustainable or appropriate.
In the wake of the memo, twelve former FDA commissioners published a response in the New England Journal of Medicine criticizing the agency’s new stance and warning that dramatic shifts in vaccine policy could “undermine the public interest.”
The former commissioners wrote that the FDA’s assertions about vaccine safety and planned regulatory changes “undermine the public interest” and jeopardize the established model designed to ensure safe and effective vaccines are available when needed.
Prasad’s memo did not stop with the pediatric cases. It also signaled that the FDA will take a closer look at adult deaths potentially linked to COVID‑19 vaccination, expanding the scope of the investigation beyond children.
In a separate report covered by UPI, Prasad stated that his team’s review of VAERS data from 2021 to 2024 found that at least ten child deaths were directly related to COVID‑19 vaccines, a conclusion that had never before been officially acknowledged by the FDA.
“This is a profound revelation,” Prasad wrote in the memo obtained by NBC News. “For the first time, the U.S. FDA will acknowledge COVID‑19 vaccines have killed American children.”
Prasad alleged that the FDA has ignored vaccine safety concerns for years and hinted that the actual number of vaccine‑related deaths could be higher than currently recognized, because not all events are reported or adequately analyzed.
One of the causes of death cited in the investigation was myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart that has been associated in rare cases with mRNA vaccines. Prasad indicated that myocarditis was the cause behind some of the fatalities under review.
Critics of Prasad’s memo immediately weighed in. Renowned pediatrician Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, dismissed the memo as “science by press release” and “dangerous,” arguing that it lacked the necessary rigorous evidence to support its claims.
Offit and other vaccine specialists argue that a memo circulated internally is not the same as peer‑reviewed science and say it is irresponsible to draw conclusions about causality without thorough research published in established scientific journals.
Even so, the presence of this memo and the FDA’s decision to expand the probe are themselves historic developments that point to serious internal concern about vaccine safety monitoring, transparency, and public confidence.
Public health advocates and conservative voices alike are now calling for a full public briefing from the FDA, including transparent release of data, methods, and criteria used to establish the preliminary links outlined in Prasad’s memo.
On my birthday, my sister smashed the cake straight into my face, laughing as she watched me fall backward, blood mixing with the frosting. Everyone said, “It’s just a joke.” But the next mo
On my birthday, my sister smashed the cake straight into my face, laughing as she watched me fall backward, blood mixing with the frosting. Everyone said, “It’s just a joke.”
But the next morning in the emergency room, the doctor studied my X-ray and immediately called 911—because what he saw… exposed a horrifying truth.
Part One: “It’s Just a Joke”
On my birthday, the room smelled like sugar and candles and cheap champagne. A pink cake sat in the center of the table, my name written across it in looping frosting. Everyone was laughing. Phones were out. Someone shouted for me to make a wish.
My sister stood closest to me.
She grinned, eyes bright with something that wasn’t kindness. Before I could even lean forward, her hands slammed the cake straight into my face.
The impact was harder than anyone expected.
I felt myself stumble backward, my heel catching on the rug. There was a sharp crack as my head hit the edge of the table, then the floor. For a split second, the room spun in white and pink. I tasted sugar—and then iron.
Blood mixed with frosting, dripping down my chin.
People screamed, then laughed nervously.
“Oh my God,” someone said, still chuckling. “It’s just a joke!”
My sister laughed the loudest. “Relax! You’re so dramatic.”
I tried to sit up. Pain exploded behind my eyes. My vision blurred, and the ceiling swayed like it was floating. Someone wiped my face with a napkin, smearing blood across my cheek.
“You’re fine,” my mother said quickly. “Don’t ruin the mood.”
I remember thinking how strange it was that my ears were ringing louder than the music.
I remember the taste of frosting as I swallowed blood.
I remember waking up hours later in my bed, alone, my head throbbing, my phone full of messages telling me not to be “too sensitive.”
By morning, I couldn’t lift my arm.
Part Two: The X-Ray That Changed Everything
The emergency room smelled like disinfectant and sleepless nights. The doctor asked how it happened. I hesitated, then said quietly, “I fell.”
He nodded, unconvinced, and ordered X-rays “just to be safe.”
I lay on the cold table staring at the ceiling, replaying the laughter over and over in my head. It’s just a joke. That sentence hurt almost as much as my skull.
When the doctor returned, he wasn’t smiling.
He stared at the image on the screen for a long time. Too long.
Then he left the room without a word.
Minutes later, he came back—with a nurse, a security officer, and his phone pressed to his ear.
“Yes,” he said quietly. “I need emergency services. Immediately.”
My heart started pounding. “What’s wrong?” I asked.
He turned to me, his voice careful. “This isn’t a simple fall.”
He pointed to the X-ray. Even I could see it—fine fractures branching like cracks in glass, not just in my skull, but along my collarbone and ribs. Old fractures. Healed wrong. Layered.
“These injuries happened at different times,” he said gently. “Some weeks apart. Some months.”
I stared at the screen, my mouth dry.
“I don’t understand,” I whispered.
He met my eyes. “This pattern isn’t accidental. And the impact that brought you in today could have killed you.”
The word killed echoed in my ears.
“Who did this to you?” he asked softly.
I thought of my sister’s grin. My parents’ laughter. All the times I’d been shoved, tripped, “joked” into walls. All the times I’d been told I was clumsy. Sensitive. Overreacting.
My hands began to shake.
“I think…” My voice broke. “I think it was never a joke.”
Part Three: When Laughter Turns Into Sirens
The police arrived quietly. Calmly. Like this wasn’t the first time they’d seen something like me.
They didn’t accuse. They asked questions.
Who was there last night?
Who pushed you?
How often do you get hurt?
For the first time, I didn’t minimize. I didn’t protect anyone. I told the truth.
By evening, my phone was exploding.
My mother crying.
My father furious.
My sister screaming that I had “ruined everything.”
“You’re exaggerating!” she yelled over voicemail. “It was cake! Everyone saw it!”
Everyone had seen it.
That was the horrifying truth.
Everyone had seen it—and laughed.
The investigation didn’t take long. Videos surfaced. Old medical records were reviewed. Witnesses contradicted themselves. Patterns became impossible to ignore.
What started as a “birthday prank” became an assault case.
What they called humor was documented as violence.
I was moved to a different room that night, monitored closely, safe for the first time in years. As I lay there, ice wrapped around my head, I realized something terrifying and freeing all at once:
If that cake hadn’t been smashed into my face…
If I hadn’t fallen just right…
The truth might have stayed buried forever.
Sometimes it takes breaking something visible to expose what’s been shattered for years.
