The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating whether there’s a link between COVID-19 vaccines and deaths in adults, Bloomberg reported on the 9th.Bloomberg noted that the FDA has launched a broader investigation into the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n
While authorities have previously primarily investigated the vaccines’ effects on children, the agency has now expanded its investigation to include adults.<\/p>\n
An FDA spokesperson said in a statement to Bloomberg that day, “We are conducting a thorough investigation of deaths potentially related to COVID-19 vaccines across multiple age groups.”<\/p>\n
According to Bloomberg, Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s vaccine division, notified employees in an internal memo last month that stricter standards would be applied to vaccinations.<\/p>\n
Twelve former heads of the FDA subsequently expressed concern in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), a prominent medical journal, that the move “undermines the regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability.”<\/p>\n
Previously, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. have questioned the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, and he canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the development of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines, the technology behind Moderna and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n
vaccines are developed using mRNA, which contains the virus’s genetic information. While mRNA-based vaccines are difficult to develop, they have the advantage of being able to respond quickly to mutations by simply inserting the virus’s genetic information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"