(The Epoch Times)—Food and Drug Administration experts concluded that COVID-19 vaccination probably or possibly resulted in the deaths of 10 children, before revising that number to seven, according to recently released documents.
FDA experts said the deaths of two boys, aged 13 and 7, from heart inflammation, were probably due to a COVID-19 vaccination, according to the files.
The 13-year-old was found dead three days after a COVID-19 vaccination. The death was reported after an autopsy in a study by medical examiners in 2022.
“There was temporal association of death following vaccination, and autopsy findings showed myocarditis of uncertain etiology as the cause of death,” FDA reviewers said in one of the files, a safety memorandum, made public by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
The 7-year-old, with no prior medical history, developed a fever and other problems 12 days after vaccination and died of cardiac arrest two days later.
“This case was assessed as probably associated with COVID-19 vaccination due to the 12-day symptom onset fitting into the known risk window,” the reviewers said.
The experts also concluded that the deaths of a 13-year-old male, two 13-year-old females, a 15-year-old male, and two 16-year-old males were possibly caused by COVID-19 vaccination, according to the memo.
All of the deaths deemed probable or possible came following vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine.
Neither Pfizer nor BioNTech responded to The Epoch Times’ requests for comment by time of publication.
The assessment of deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) uncovered dangers “not currently described in the prescribing information for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,” the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research said in the memo, dated Dec. 5, 2025. Prescribing information is given to doctors who administer vaccines.
From 10 to 7
Dr. Vinay Prasad, head of the center at that time, said in a Nov. 28, 2025, memorandum, previously made public, that the investigation concluded that at least 10 deaths of children that were reported to the VAERS were related to COVID-19 vaccination.
“This is a profound revelation. For the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children,” he said.
Prasad also said the number of actual related deaths was actually higher, since VAERS is a passive reporting system.
FDA experts had assessed 10 deaths as probably or possibly related to COVID-19 vaccination, according to emails released by Johnson. The emails, first reported by the Daily Caller, show that FDA employee Meghna Alimchandani wrote to Prasad twice in November outlining the number of 10.
On Dec. 5, 2025, however, as her team moved to finalize the report, Alimchandani said it downgraded several of the deaths. One of the deaths that had been deemed probable, for instance, was shifted to unlikely because an unidentified pediatric cardiologist said it appeared to have been caused by genetic heart disease. Another was changed from possible to assessable because COVID-19 and parvovirus “presented alternative etiologies,” she said.
“This was a MONUMENTAL effort from all of us, to try to do a diligent thorough review while being bombarded with media articles on the subject,” Alimchandani wrote. Any responses from Prasad have not been released.
Alimchandani is not listed in the Department of Health and Human Services employee directory. Prasad and other FDA employees copied on the email did not respond to The Epoch Times’ requests for comment by publication time.
No Labeling Changes
The FDA has on multiple occasions directed COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to add warnings to their labels, including for myocarditis, or heart inflammation.
The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, after finalizing the report, recommended possibly changing the vaccine labels. They planned a Dec. 11, 2025, meeting to discuss the recommendation.
Dr. Marty Makary, now the FDA’s former commissioner, said 10 days later that the FDA would not add a safety-related warning called a black box to COVID-19 vaccines.
Johnson, chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said in a June 16 letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the FDA’s acting commissioner that it was not clear whether the meeting took place. He wanted to know whether the recommendation was accepted, and, if it was not, why it was not.
The FDA and its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, did not return requests for comment from The Epoch Times by time of publication.
Johnson previously released records showing the FDA identified safety signals for the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines shortly after they were rolled out, but did not alert the public.
“It is shocking that Senator Johnson has had to work so hard to try to obtain truthful information from the FDA about the coverup of mRNA COVID shot safety signals in 2021, and the failure to make label changes to the product in 2025 after 10 COVID shot-associated pediatric deaths were identified,” Barbara Loe Fisher, president and co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, said in an email to The Epoch Times.
“Hopefully, Senator Johnson will find out why the health and safety of the public continues to be put in jeopardy by both the pharmaceutical industry and by federal health agency officials failing to effectively regulate that industry.”
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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