The Food and Drug Administration is seeking to drastically change procedures for testing vaccine safety^[1] and approving vaccines, based on unproven claims that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines caused the death of at least 10 children.

The agency detailed its plans in a memo released to staff on Nov. 28, 2025, which was obtained by several news outlets and published by The Washington Post^[2].

Citing an internal, unpublished...