by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:
A preschool-aged child died of cardio-respiratory arrest after getting a COVID-19 booster in a Moderna clinical trial, according to an investigation by journalist Alex Berenson. The FDA has yet to answer the question: Did the agency know about the death?
A preschool-aged child died of cardio-respiratory arrest after getting a COVID-19 booster in a Moderna clinical trial. However, Moderna didn’t reveal the death to the public and only recently reported it on a European regulatory agency database, Alex Berenson reported.
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The death occurred in late 2022 or early 2023, Berenson said, when children under 5 who had already received Moderna’s original mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine in the trial’s main phase were offered the “1273.214” booster against an early Omicron variant.
Berenson, a former New York Times reporter who now reports on his Unreported Truths Substack, today said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declined to tell him whether the U.S. agency knew that a child died during Moderna’s clinical trial.
The failure of the FDA to provide a straightforward answer about whether it knew that a young child in a Moderna clinical trial died from cardiac-respiratory arrest is “vitally important,” Berenson told The Defender.
“Of all the mistakes public health authorities made around COVID, their insistence on pressing mRNA vaccines on children was probably the worst,” Berenson said.
By the time the COVID-19 vaccines were available for kids, it was clear that children were at almost no risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19, he said. “The shots had significant side effects, so the only rationale for giving them shots — even theoretically — was to reduce transmission.”
Myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle — is a possible side effect of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines that can, in some instances, lead to cardiac arrest.
In its report to European regulatory authorities, Moderna said one death from cardio-respiratory arrest occurred among kids ages 6 months to 5 years who participated in its KidCOVE clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine for children.
Moderna did not report the child’s exact age. The company recorded the death as unrelated to its COVID-19 shot.
Doctors and parents have the right to know about the death of a child in a vaccine clinical trial — even if the company sponsoring the trial claims the death is unrelated, Berenson said.
So Berenson asked the FDA if it was aware that a child in a Moderna clinical trial died after receiving the vaccine.
“The agency has so far refused to answer,” Berenson wrote on Monday. “But based on what the FDA said to me on Friday, it seems likely the agency did know about the death — a fact it is trying to hide.”
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