While the Biden administration was telling parents the COVID vaccines were safe for their children, its own FDA doctors were quietly reviewing files on 96 dead kids and concluding that some of them had probably been killed by the shots.
They wrote it up. They classified it as new safety information under federal law. And they never told the public.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) released the records this week, referenced in a May 11, 2026, letter directed to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge was first to report them.
The key document is a December 5, 2025, FDA memorandum. It covers 96 pediatric deaths following COVID-19 vaccination reported to VAERS, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, a federal database where patients and doctors report side effects following vaccination. FDA medical officers reviewed every case, including autopsy reports, death certificates, and medical records, and classified seven as “possibly” or “probably” related to the vaccine. Five of those seven deaths involved myocarditis.
The agency concluded those fatal cases constituted “new safety information” under federal law, information that was never added to the vaccine’s warning label. Not while the Biden administration was mandating the shots. Not while it was pressuring parents. Not while it was dismissing anyone who raised concerns as an anti-vaxxer.