California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks in a media conference during a visiting of a BusTest Express mobile COVID-19 testing site in Paramount, CA, Jan. 12, 2022. (Photo: Ringo Chiu/Shutterstock)
FDA Admits Children Died from Covid Shots that CA Mandated
California led the nation in coercive vaccine mandates – Where is the accountability?
By Rita Barnett-Rose, December 4, 2025 2:45 am
On November 29, 2025, a leaked internal FDA memo written by Vinay Prasad — the new director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) — confirmed what many parents had warned and what California officials aggressively denied: American children died because of the COVID vaccines.
The memo summarizes an FDA review of 96 pediatric deaths reported between 2021 and 2024, cases drawn from VAERS and cross-checked against records, timelines, hospitalization notes, and autopsies where available. After this review, analysts concluded that “no fewer than 10” children likely died because of the vaccine. In regulatory terms, that is a finding of causation — not correlation — and it is seismic.
Prasad — a Bay Area liberal who spent a decade at UCSF and initially supported mRNA vaccination for high-risk adults — is precisely the kind of mainstream physician California officials once told the public to trust. Yet he wrote explicitly: “This is the first time the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
California — the only state to pursue a statewide K–12 COVID vaccine mandate — cannot escape what this acknowledgment means.
California Led the Nation in Coercive Mandates
In October 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that all students would be required to receive the shot to attend school in person — before sufficient pediatric safety data existed and after early myocarditis warnings had already been reported by Israel and Scandinavian regulators. Two bills soon followed: SB 871, which would have added the COVID vaccine to the mandatory K–12 schedule without personal or religious belief exemptions, and SB 866, which would have allowed minors 12 and up to receive vaccines without parental consent.
Meanwhile, school districts across California had already begun imposing their own mandates. LAUSD and SDUSD led the charge, followed by Piedmont Unified, Oakland Unified, Culver City Unified, and others. These local mandates triggered immediate litigation — California law clearly reserves school vaccine-mandate authority to the Legislature or the California Department of Public Health. Nevertheless, the Newsom administration encouraged districts to “move ahead,” creating unlawful requirements that forced children out of classrooms, athletics, arts programs, and special-education services. Thousands were pushed into homeschooling, private options, or out of the state entirely; more than 400,000 residents left California during this period, many of them families refusing to comply with mandates.
Higher education followed the same coercive path. The UC system, Cal State system, and most major private universities — including Stanford, USC, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine, Santa Clara University, and more — required vaccination for enrollment, housing, athletics, or class attendance. These policies remained long after other states abandoned them and after international regulators signaled elevated cardiac risks in young males.
As an attorney litigating several mandate cases, I watched California officials ignore every warning sign now validated by the FDA. Our pleadings included myocarditis data from Israel and Sweden, European Medicine Agency concerns, Scandinavian pauses on Moderna, expert declarations from cardiologists, and VAERS hospitalization clusters. None of it mattered. Reputation mattered more than risk.
Warnings Were There — California Chose Suppression
The FDA memo makes clear that pediatric deaths occurred during the same period officials were declaring myocarditis “mild,” “rare,” and “self-resolving.” Yet the reviewed cases tell another story: severe cardiac injury, sudden collapse, and fatal outcomes.
Prasad’s memo cites then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky claiming that the CDC “had not seen a signal,” a statement he calls “dishonest and manipulative.” Internal federal data — including VSD findings, DMED spikes, and VAERS hospitalization clusters — shows myocarditis in young males was identified as early as spring 2021.
Despite this, Biden-era federal officials continued to promote school mandates, workplace mandates, and “no-exceptions” vaccination policies throughout 2021–2024 — even as the underlying data showed clear cardiac risks to adolescents. The FDA itself delayed acknowledging the safety signal entirely until after it expanded vaccine authorization to younger boys ages 12–15.
California cited these deceptive federal assurances to justify its own coercive policies.
California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly echoed the same message, assuring families that “vaccines are safe and effective,” and that pediatric trials were “rigorous in demonstrating that the vaccine is safe and effective for children ages 5–11.” Those assurances now stand in stark contrast to this FDA memo acknowledging that previously healthy children suffered catastrophic cardiac events after vaccination.
But California’s institutions did not merely make a mistake in following federal guidance; they built a culture of suppression that made it professionally impossible to acknowledge risk even as those risks became undeniable. Transparency was discouraged, dissent punished, and the public conditioned to defend the system even when evidence contradicted it.
AB 2098 codified that intolerance. Passed in 2022, it threatened physicians with discipline for offering COVID risk-benefit opinions that strayed from the state’s preferred narrative — including warnings about myocarditis, lack of pediatric safety data, or early treatment options. The purpose was not accuracy; it was message control.
Public health leaders like Ghaly, Barbara Ferrer, Clayton Chau, and Sara Cody enforced their ideological beliefs as if they were immutable truth, dismissing dissent as extremism and treating uncertainty as heresy. They imposed sweeping mandates with absolutism — masks, tests, vaccines, exclusion from society — without humility or caution.
Now the FDA has acknowledged that vaccine-caused pediatric deaths appeared in over ten percent of the cases reviewed—and Prasad indicates that “if anything, this represents conservative coding…the real number is higher.” California officials can no longer pretend they were following an infallible scientific consensus. The evidence they suppressed, ridiculed, or ignored is now affirmed by the very institution they invoked to justify coercion.
Doubling Down Instead of Accountability
During COVID, California demanded that we “trust the CDC” and “trust the FDA,” even as those agencies downplayed myocarditis and ignored mounting safety signals. State leaders built their entire pandemic authority on the premise that federal regulators were beyond question. But now that those same agencies — under new leadership — are finally acknowledging serious harms, including fatal pediatric cases, California rejects the very institutions it once insisted the public obey.
The reason is simple: the scientific narrative California enforced with absolute certainty is collapsing. Acknowledging the FDA memo would require admitting that the mandates, messaging, and suppression of dissent harmed children. Rather than show humility, state leadership is doubling down.
Governor Newsom’s administration is advancing the Governor’s Public Health Alliance — a parallel public-health infrastructure created to preserve California’s pandemic-era orthodoxy at the very moment national health agencies are moving toward transparency, higher safety standards, and a long-overdue overhaul of vaccine regulation.
And instead of engaging with the reformers now leading HHS, CDC, and FDA — physicians and scientists calling for open data, rigorous trials, and real risk-benefit analysis — Newsom and his political allies have returned to the only playbook they know: attack the messenger instead of confronting the evidence. They are portraying RFK Jr. and federal reformers as “anti-science quacks” not because the facts support that claim, but because California cannot afford for its residents to reconsider the evidence for themselves.
But a simple question cuts through the noise: Who benefits when regulators admit harm?
Certainly not pharmaceutical companies, political leaders who mandated these products, or public-health agencies whose reputations are at stake. The only beneficiaries of transparency are the public — children, parents, patients — and the principle of informed consent itself.
What California Owes Its Children
California mandated a product that federal regulators now acknowledge killed children. That truth cannot be softened with slogans or buried beneath partisan spin. If California wants to rebuild trust, it must begin by confronting the cost of its certainty — the children harmed, the families silenced, the evidence ignored. Transparency is not a threat to public health; it is its foundation. The FDA’s admission should mark the start of accountability: real hearings, real audits, real consequences. Anything less is another betrayal.
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They’re still pushing the covid nonsense in the hospital, medical offices and insurance. I was admitted from the emergency room, they have a page or two of questions they ask that most are invasive, don’t apply or none of their business. One has to do with whether or not you had the covid shot. I usually say yes in the hope they’ll leave me alone, but my wits weren’t about me at the moment. Soon someone arrived to to stick a swab up my nose and said it was to test for mrsa. She lied, on my insurance EOB it was listed as a covid test. Then, because I wouldn’t answer the question about sexual activity (noyb) a doctor showed up and sternly asked me if I was sexually active. I made a joke that only when I was all alone. He then went all gestapo on me, lying that I had an STD and that my white blood count was up because of it, blah blah, blah. I told him it was none of his business, which ticked him off. He left after a while without an answer and that was last I heard about it in the four days I was hospitalized, they must have realized I had a life threatening issue to focus on. On the one hand they might have well asked me about the 1918 spanish flu, on the other I’m afraid to get a flu shot thinking some zealot will shoot me up with mnra without informing me.
Bottom line is that they knew about it, they didn’t CARE. It was about POWER and CONTROL and about the MONEY. The conspiracy theorist in me is screaming POPULATION thinning along the lines of the Georgia GuidE Stones. WHY else would these morons put COVID patients in with the elderly and mandate shots to Children? BUT! That’s just me, the progressive I know has informed me time and time again, that I have been lied to by ALL of my information sources (she still believes there was Russian collusion.) Not happy about this, but so far I’ve been right from the beginning and I know she loathes to admit it. But the truth will ALWAYS COME OUT. I guess the question now is…will there be ANY accountability? Probably not, as usual. Just Remember, if a DEMOCRAT says you need it, you most assuredly do not need it. I feel bad for the family’s of the children.
Yet another glorious resume enhancement the greasy, sleazy, loathsome Dapper Gav can add to his long list of mighty achievements as he plans his run for president so he can do to the entire nation what he’s done to California!
I wonder how many readers here had flashbacks when they read this, of the scenes they made in hospital hallways or City of Hope lobbies —- those of us who would do a lot to avoid making scenes in public —- to be allowed to be with our precious loved ones when doctors, medical, and office staff said “no, you can’t go in,” to be able to hear what was involved in the proposed awful-sounding invasive surgery or procedure when we knew our loved one needed us to translate from medical to lay language what would be done to them? And to be allowed in as an advocate for our loved one before and after the medical procedure or surgery was performed? How helpless we felt to help and protect our loved one because of the vicious and sadistic behavior of that bastard Gavin Newsom, these sick and twisted legislators, and the so-called “public health” bureaucrats? And others, who too willingly went along with this insanity? Who in many cases are STILL punishing us for speaking up against what THEY did?
I just can’t even imagine losing a child, and especially under these circumstances. The people responsible for this unnecessary angst, pain, grief, and misery MUST pay the consequences for what they —- so casually, willingly, and perhaps even eagerly —- did to us.
“The FDA’s admission should mark the start of accountability: real hearings, real audits, real consequences. Anything less is another betrayal.” A lovely thought but since it’s CA, none of those things will happen.
Exactly @ bluzman!
Will we get accountability?
As ShowandTell commented, the flashbacks just keep coming. Loved ones lost, loved ones brainwashed, loved ones seriously vaxxed damaged! Relationships still not repaired, family holidays never to be the same as division still stands!
I want justice and I want it now! Isn’t that what the libs chant during their not so peaceful protests?!
That’s what the lefties chant for sure, Cali Girl.
Will we see justice in our lifetimes? Hope so, we’ll see.
Living in California is like living in any Communist country. California is still pushing the propaganda. Here is what covid19.ca.gov says:
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“The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) continues to recommend:
Everyone aged 6 months and older have access to the vaccine
The choice to receive COVID-19 vaccines
Groups at higher risk (PDF) of severe illness should receive protection. These groups include:
* Infants and toddlers
* Pregnant people
CDPH is working with partners, including the West Coast Health Alliance, to continue:
* Promoting vaccine access
* Provide science and fact-based information on vaccine safety and efficacy. ”
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Can you believe this BS?
It’s beyond belief, Protect Freedom. Just this very afternoon I heard a news blurb about continued vaxx-jabbing of infants. So insane, all the more so in light of the admission of children dying, that I thought I heard wrong. Guess not.
Beyond!!
Absolutely mind blowing.
What will the future hold for those babies?
Very sad.
Yup, this mRNA Covid-19 vaccine is a BIOWEAPON and as somebody bravely mentioned, it’s about major DEPOPULATION as mentioned in the GEORGIA GUIDESTONES in Elbert or Elberton Georgia, USA.
One of those stones says: HUMANITY must be MAINTAINED UNDER 500,000,000 in Perpetual Balance With Nature.
And as GAVIN is a GLOBALIST and was a YOUNG GLOBAL LEADER for the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM and works for CHINA and other Globalists, he probably did know about this dangerous mRNA CV-19 Vax Bioweapon and it’s real purpose.
And, GAVIN as a Young Global Leader probably also KNEW about this book called:
COVID-19: The GREAT RESET by
Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum
And so, he knew darn well, this whole evil scheme was an EVIL SCHEME, also MESNT TO KILL with FORCED-COERCED mRNA CV-19 Not Vaccines.
We had one of longest LOCKDOWNS and
MEDICAL TYRANNY in the USA.
And we had to wear Masks-Social Distsnce, temperature checks in some places, stand outside of stores etc like a bunch of dummies, take those FAKE-Criminal PCR tests. SMALL BUSINESSES closed down forever while Walmart etc stayed open.
And GAVIN NEWSCUM was laughing at us the entire time.
And what about those MEDICAL TYRANTS?
FILM YOUR HOSPITAL: That was going for a while. While Hospitals FAKE-Stream MEDIA falsely claimed they were Overflowing with very ill or DYING cv-19 pts, many Hospitals were Filmed as EMPTY or nearly EMPTY.
And then we had all those TIKTOK videos of Dancing Nurse videos—making FUN of us.
They should all be in jail.
CONTINUED: The PCR TESTS used for MASS HYSTERIA and JUSTIFY LOCKDOWNS was also used to KILL OFF our Food Supply.
The PCR TESTS: The Higher the Cycle, the HIGHER the FALSE POSITIVE.
The Mainstream Media used this PCR test to drive up MASS HYSTERIA and justify LOCKDOWNS and HOSPITALS-some businesses and even SCHOOLS etc used to FORCE-COERCE people to take these potential CLOT SHOTS and then there were those VACCINE PASSPORTS.
And some people DIED from these mRNA vaccines.
How many YOUNG healthy ATHLETES
DIED SUDDENLY right then and there on the field?
How many young kids developed MYOCARDITIS and PERICARDITIS? How many people developed BLOOD CLOTS, Miscarriages-stillbirths, Bells Palsey and Guillaine-Barre?
And EMBALMERS are SAYING the BLOOD CLOTS are strange, they’re normally small, smooth and easily breaks apart,
But these BLOOD CLOTS are long, very RUBBERY-TOUGH and hard to break apart and they usually get CENSORED when they try to report this.
PCR tests And FOOD SUPPLY: NO eggs anyone?
Here’s what happened: TEST only 1-2 HENS, usually hens are targeted: they Test FALSE-POSITIVE and then the ENTIRE Flock is KILLED OFF, even if that’s as much as 1-2 MILLION BIRDS!
This is ALL CRIMINAL and NOBODY is held ACCOUNTABLE at all.
Not FAUCI-2 Weeks to FLATTEN the CURVE, all those present at- EVENT 201 and OPERATION LOCKSTEP, all HOSPITALS involved, our evil-very Malicious Lying Mainscream Media, Albert Bourla-Pfizer CEO, Stephen Bancel-Moderna CEO, Bill Gates, NIG, NIAID, Francis Collins, ExoHealth Alliance, the CDC-FDA.
There were so many involved in this CV-19 QUACKDEMIC-PLANNEDEMIC-SCAMDEMIC.
INcluding all those Tik-Toc Mocking DANCING NURSES.
So, WHEN will there finally be any ACCOUNTABILITY for all this CRIME?
So far, NO JUSTICE has been served at all.
oops, NIG was supposed to be NIH. Sorry about that.