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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is conducting a wide probe into deaths perchance linked to COVID-19 vaccines, a spokesperson for Donald Trump’s vaccine-sceptic wellness caput said connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025).
Since Mr. Trump’s assignment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arsenic wellness secretary, the U.S. authorities has initiated a large overhaul of vaccine policy, prompting increasing concerns among the aesculapian community.
“FDA is doing a thorough investigation, crossed aggregate property groups, of deaths perchance related to COVID vaccines,” a spokesperson for Mr. Kennedy’s wellness and quality services department, Andrew Nixon, told AFP.
Bloomberg and the Washington Post had antecedently reported connected the probe.
The review, which was initially intended to absorption connected imaginable kid deaths, has sparked contention successful caller weeks pursuing the leak of an interior papers successful precocious November.
Attributed to a elder FDA official, the memo claimed COVID vaccines are linked to astatine slightest 10 babe deaths, without providing immoderate evidence.
The efficacy and information of COVID vaccines person been studied and documented worldwide, arsenic person uncommon cases of terrible broadside effects that bash not undermine the vaccine’s benefits for astir property groups, according to assorted wellness authorities astir the world.
Mr. Nixon declined to specify the methods, information and timeline for the investigation’s completion.
Experts person voiced interest implicit the actions of the FDA nether Mr. Kennedy, who is known for spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories.
In 2023, Mr. Kennedy called the vaccines deadly and alleged without grounds that the microorganism itself was ethnically “targeted” to harm Black and White radical portion sparing Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.
