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No child deaths have been definitively linked to Covid vaccines, according to a report from the Food and Drug Administration that was quietly made public last week. <\/p>\n

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The analysis comes nearly six months after former FDA vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad said, without releasing evidence, that the agency had identified at least 10 previously unreported child deaths tied to the vaccines.<\/p>\n

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Prasad\u2019s claims were used to help justify proposed changes to how the FDA reviews vaccines. He left the agency in April after facing criticism over delays and rejections involving several treatments for rare diseases. <\/p>\n

\u201cTo sort of imply that there was a wholesale or large number of kids killed by the vaccine, I think, goes beyond what the evidence seems to be here\u201d in the report, said Dr. Jesse Goodman, a former FDA chief scientist and an infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University Medical Center.<\/p>\n

The FDA\u2019s analysis surfaced in a letter Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., sent this month to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding transparency around Covid vaccine safety. An HHS official confirmed the report was authentic.<\/p>\n

In the analysis, dated Dec. 5, the FDA reviewed 96 reports of child deaths submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System through Aug. 14, 2025. <\/p>\n

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VAERS is a vaccine safety system in which anyone \u2014 including doctors, patients and caregivers \u2014 can report health problems that happen after vaccination. The reports alone don\u2019t mean a vaccine caused the problem. The report itself states \u201cVAERS data has significant inherent limitations that severely restrict its utility for assessing causality\u201d and the VAERS website warns \u201cit is generally not possible to find out from VAERS data if a vaccine caused the adverse event.\u201d<\/p>\n

After reviewing the cases, the FDA reported that no cases were \u201ccertain\u201d to be linked to Covid vaccination. The conclusions differ from Prasad\u2019s characterization of the deaths, who said in a November memo to FDA staff that the children died \u201cafter and because of receiving\u201d the Covid shot. <\/p>\n

An HHS spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. Prasad did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n

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In the analysis, five deaths were classified as \u201cpossible\u201d and two as \u201cprobably,\u201d though the agency said those categories don\u2019t mean the vaccine caused the deaths and that other explanations could not be ruled out. \u201cIt is important to note that possible cases could also be explained by alternative\u201d causes, it wrote. The classifications were based on , which says that for \u201cpossible\u201d cases, there \u201cmay be another equally likely explanation for the event.\u201d \u201cProbable\u201d cases, the FDA wrote, are \u201cunlikely to be attributed\u201d to alternative causes, but an alternative cause \u201ccannot be ruled out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five of the dead were boys and two were girls, and the average age was 13, according to the report. Most of the cases involved myocarditis, a rare inflammation of the heart that has been linked to Covid shots, particularly in teen boys and young men. Last June, months before Prasad\u2019s memo, the FDA instructed Pfizer and Moderna to update the labels on their Covid vaccines about myocarditis risk. The condition has been on the vaccine labels since it was first identified in 2021. <\/p>\n

Goodman said the FDA authors \u201cwere pretty liberal about saying something was possibly or probably associated with the vaccine,\u201d though he didn\u2019t rule out that there could be vaccine-associated deaths. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s not a way to be certain, unless we found some specific marker for the vaccine,\u201d he said. \u201cAll that said, I think this report was carefully done.\u201d <\/p>\n

The agency had reviewed medical records, death certificates and, in some cases, interviewed the children\u2019s parents when determining whether the deaths were linked to Covid shots. <\/p>\n

Dr. Ofer Levy, who heads the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, said the risk of myocarditis from Covid vaccination is as high as 100 cases per million doses. But it\u2019s important to note, he said, that infections are the primary cause of myocarditis. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a range of common infections, mostly viruses, that can trigger this kind of inflammation of the heart,\u201d he said. That includes viruses such as Covid, as well as human herpesvirus 6 and parvovirus B19. It can also be caused by various bacterial and fungal infections.<\/p>\n

Mild cases usually clear up on their own with rest and routine monitoring by a doctor, Levy said. Severe cases, however, typically require hospitalization.<\/p>\n

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