President Donald Trump's administration has hatched a new scheme to determine whether the Covid-19 vaccine harms pregnant women, according to a new report.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that top officials under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are working to "waive privacy protections" around data related to the Covid vaccine, citing "people familiar with the matter." The new scheme was revealed just days after Kennedy's Senate hearing, where he repeated falsehoods about vaccines.
"The push to collect the data is an extension of a broader effort," the report states. "Last week, Makary said he is preparing a report on child deaths he said were caused by the Covid vaccines."
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary and vaccines chief Vinay Prasad are leading what Makary described to CNN as a "proper investigation."
“There have been children who have died from the Covid vaccine. We’re doing a proper investigation,” Makary told CNN. “We think the public deserves to have that information. It wasn’t released in the last administration and it should have been.”