Former FDA leaders denounce agency's new vaccine safety stance
Key Points:
- Twelve former FDA leaders from both political parties strongly criticized the agency’s new internal memo questioning vaccine safety, warning it would harm vulnerable populations by undermining established vaccine protections.
- The memo, authored by FDA vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad, alleges without evidence that COVID-19 vaccines caused 10 child deaths and proposes major changes to vaccine evaluation processes, including flu shot updates and simultaneous vaccine administration assessments.
- Former officials argue the memo misrepresents data from vaccine safety surveillance systems, ignores substantial evidence of COVID-19 vaccines’ benefits for children, and threatens to slow vaccine innovation while reducing transparency.
- Public health experts, including the Infectious Diseases Society of America president, condemned the FDA’s approach as spreading misinformation that could increase public mistrust
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