12 former FDA chiefs unite to say agency memo on vaccines is deeply stupid
Key Points:
- Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s chief medical and scientific officer, sent a controversial memo claiming COVID-19 vaccines have killed 10 children in the US without evidence and announced major changes to vaccine regulation, including requiring lengthy randomized trials instead of current immunobridging studies.
- A group of a dozen former FDA commissioners strongly rebuked Prasad’s memo in the New England Journal of Medicine, calling it a threat to the FDA’s work, misrepresenting science, and potentially harmful to public health by slowing vaccine updates and innovation.
- The commissioners criticized Prasad’s reliance on unverified VAERS reports to claim child deaths linked to vaccines, noting these reports had been previously reviewed and found unrelated to COVID-19 vaccines, and highlighted substantial
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