Regulators are investigating reported deaths, Dr. Marty Makary said.
The Food and Drug Administration is going to soon release a report detailing an investigation the agency is conducting into deaths among children from COVID-19 vaccines, the agency’s commissioner said on Sept. 4.
Dr. Marty Makary said that officials have been delving into reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), to which people, their doctors, or family members can submit reports of post-vaccination issues.
“We do know at the FDA, because we’ve been looking into the VAERS database self-reports, that there have been children that have died from the COVID vaccine,” Makary said during an appearance on CNN.
When asked how many, Makary said, “We’re going to release a report in the coming few weeks and we’re going to let people know.”
He said that the agency is carrying out “an intense investigation” that includes speaking with family members of children who died after vaccination and reviewing autopsy reports. Doctors are involved, he said.
Such a report should have been released by the government during the last administration, he added, but it was not.
Health care workers were required to report adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination to VAERS, which also accepts reports from other people.
“VAERS is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused a health problem, but is especially useful for detecting unusual or unexpected patterns of adverse event reporting that might indicate a possible safety problem with a vaccine,” the system’s website states.
Some minors died from COVID-19 vaccine side effects, according to deathcertificates and studies from researchers. That includes a young male in Connecticut who experienced myocarditis, or heart inflammation, after receiving a shot. The vaccines can cause myocarditis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC, which co-manages VAERS with the FDA, previously found evidence such as death certificates and autopsy reports that COVID-19 vaccines caused deaths in adults, according to a file obtained by The Epoch Times.
