F.D.A. seeks more oversight of vaccine trials, approvals after memo ties COVID-19 shot to child deaths

New York Times: The memo was written by Dr. Vinay Prasad, the director of the F.D.A.’s vaccine division. He sent it to agency staff members on Friday, outlining findings from a review of reports concerning childhood deaths and attributing them to myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle.

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“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad wrote in a memo to staff members. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children…