Drugmakers Fall on Report US to Claim Covid Shot Killed Kids (3)

Sept. 12, 2025, 11:43 PM UTC

Vaccine makers’ shares fell after a report that Trump health officials plan to link Covid shots to the deaths of around two dozen children in a presentation to advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention next week.

The Washington Post reported Friday that a group of health officials appear to have used the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, to tie the deaths of 25 children to Covid vaccines. A high-profile advisory committee that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revamped to include vaccine critics is scheduled to discuss the shots from companies ...

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