New Delhi: Dr Vinay Prasad, the US Food and Drug Administration’s chief medical and scientific officer, announced a change in the vaccine approval process last week , claiming that C ovid -19 vaccines have been linked to child deaths. Prasad is also the director of the agency’s Centre for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

In two public letters, former US health officials have since criticised the proposed changes, warning that they put public health at risk.

“We are deeply concerned by sweeping new FDA assertions about vaccine safety and proposals that would undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure that vaccines are safe, effective, and available when the public needs them most,” read one of the letters, authored by 12 former commissioners of the Food and Dr

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