A late-2025 internal FDA communication attributed to Dr. Vinay Prasad is making the rounds—and if even a fraction of it holds up, it’s the kind of document that could rewrite the COVID-era playbook.
In a leaked memo within @CDCgov, Dr. Vinay Prasad writes that the COVID shot KILLED young, healthy American children who faced virtually no risk from COVID-19.
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“For the first time, the U.S. FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines killed American children.”
The memo reportedly draws on a review of 96 pediatric deaths following mRNA vaccination—zeroing in on cases that, in the author’s telling, weren’t just tragic coincidences. “Healthy young children who face tremendously low risk of death were coerced… to receive a vaccine that could result in death.”
Coerced. Result in death. Those aren’t the usual bureaucratic euphemisms.
And then comes the gut punch: “It is difficult to read cases where kids 7 to 16 may be dead as a result of COVID vaccines… it is horrifying to consider the U.S. vaccine regulation… may have harmed more children than we saved.”
The memo calls for “humility,” “introspection,” and—here’s the part that should make Capitol Hill perk up—oversight. According to the same account, follow-up requests for documents were met with silence: seven out of ten unanswered.
Washington loves a good “we followed the science” victory lap. It’s a lot less enthusiastic about revisiting the receipts.
The underlying data hasn’t been fully aired in public, and critics have already circled, questioning methods, causation, and whether these cases prove anything beyond correlation. But that’s exactly why the memo matters.
Because it doesn’t read like a press release. It reads like an insider saying the quiet part out loud—and then asking why nobody wants to talk about it. If the conclusions are wrong, show the data and shut it down. If they’re right—or even partly right—then the silence is the story.
And for parents who were told the risk was negligible and the benefits unquestionable, one line from that memo is likely to echo the loudest: “This requires humility and introspection.”
