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Experts doubt FDA official's claims about COVID-19 vaccine death claims

The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator wrote in an email to staff on Friday that the COVID-19 vaccine led to at least 10 deaths in children. But experts say they are skeptical of the findings because they were presented with very little evidence.

Matthew Herper, a science writer at STAT, joins us to discuss.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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