"A federal work group says Covid vaccine injuries deserve urgent attention, even as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shifts away from talking about vaccine policy."
"Citing a survey called “Killer Jab?,” which found that nearly one out of four Americans reported knowing someone who died from a Covid vaccine, a federal work group is calling for sweeping changes to how the medical establishment tracks and treats injuries from the shots. The changes are proposed in a confidential report obtained by The New York Times.
The work group’s report — “written with a sense of urgency,” it said” — was drafted for the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a panel that advises the government on vaccine policy. In the report, the authors propose creating a diagnostic category specifically for Covid vaccine injuries, new diagnostic guidelines and a network of research centers to study long-term harms from Covid vaccines and the illness itself.
Its opening paragraph cites two polls, one of them the “Killer Jab?” an online and telephone survey of 1,110 American adults conducted in 2023 by Rasmussen Reports, a conservative-leaning polling firm, which asked “Do you know someone personally who died from side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine?”
Thousands of people believe that they were harmed by Covid vaccines, citing a wide variety of neurological, cardiovascular and immune symptoms they say were caused by the shots. But many say that their complaints have been dismissed by federal agencies as psychosomatic and that they have been unfairly branded as being anti-vaccine."
Apoorva Mandavilli and Sheryl Gay Stolberg report for the New York Times March 15, 2026.
