Following continued revelations of deaths linked to the COVID vaccine and health concerns over the hepatitis B vaccine, experts say that the decision to receive a vaccine must be left in the hands of individuals and parents and must not be mandated by federal or state governments.

Last month, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief medical and scientific officer Vinay Prasad stated in a memo that COVID vaccines have been linked to at least 10 deaths of children due to heart inflammation. “This is a profound revelation,” he wrote. “For the first time, the U.S. FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children.” The findings came as a result of an analysis of 96 deaths between 2021 and 2024. “It is difficult to read cases where kids aged 7 to 16 may be dead as a result of COVID vaccines,” Prasad added.

On Tuesday, a Health and Human Services spokesperson announced that the FDA would extend its investigation of COVID vaccine-linked deaths to multiple age groups beyond children. In May, a Senate subcommittee investigation found that Biden administration officials knew as early as February 2021 that the vaccine was associated with inflammation of the heart (known as myocarditis and pericarditis), which was linked to almost 1,000 deaths of individuals following vaccination. But fears within the administration that the news would cause “vaccine hesitancy” in the public led to the information not being released until June 2021, leading to an unknown number of subsequent vaccine-linked deaths.

Dr. Robert Malone, who serves as a member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), expressed further concern as a non-governmental observer regarding the potential danger that COVID vaccines pose to children.

“I have seen the actual data regarding these childhood deaths that were recorded in [the FDA’s] subsequent investigation,” he explained during "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins" Wednesday. “There [are] actually many more deaths than just these 10. But these 10 are clearly extremely well documented and linked to the administration of the vaccine product. The fact that these deaths occurred, and [were] not disclosed to the American people in a timely fashion, may involve some criminal activity. At some point in time, there will be a determination about that. I’m confident there will be hearings.”

Malone went on to highlight the case of Ernesto Ramirez Jr., a 16-year-old who died five days after receiving the Pfizer COVID vaccine. “Mr. Ramirez is the gentleman [who] has been touring the country, insisting that his son was killed by the Pfizer jab, and there’s been a lot of denialism about that. But now he is among the 10 that are specifically being identified here. This is really just the first wave, the first cut at identifying those that have unfortunately passed away from these products that were mandated by our government.”

In light of the ACIP’s decision last week to adjust the recommendation that all newborns be given the hepatitis B vaccine to favor parental choice, Malone underscored that “we are entering into a period of radical transparency and transformation concerning the entire vaccine enterprise.” Hepatitis B is a disease that can only be transmitted through sexual contact or via blood through shared needles in adults and can only be transmitted to newborn babies if the mother has the disease. This is why many have questioned the need for newborns to receive a vaccine (that contains a host of toxic ingredients) for a disease that they are in no danger of getting if the mother is not infected.

Malone further explained the context of the ACIP’s hepatitis B decision. “Remember, the ACIP does not set federal policy,” he emphasized. “The director of the CDC or the acting director in the current case is the one [who] will accept, refuse, reject, or modify those recommendations. But the language of the recommendations is being broadly misrepresented by the likes of [Senator] Elizabeth Warren [D-Mass.], in which she asserts that the CDC is now … taking away vaccines from people. We were extremely careful to ensure that our wording could not be interpreted as taking the ability of anybody to receive or accept a hepatitis B vaccine.”

Malone continued, “We didn’t delay the first birth dose of children who have been born to hepatitis B negative mothers until two months. What we did was we said it’s suggested that those children not take the first dose until at least two months, but that it’s up to the parents to decide when and if they accept the hepatitis B vaccine for their children.”

Malone further insisted that “it is inappropriate for the state to mandate medical procedures on its citizens, particularly without informed consent. … This is the fundamental policy shift here. Frankly, public health is driven by utilitarianism, currently it is. … That’s a euphemism for socialism, the belief that the state has the right to mandate that you receive medical procedures, including injections. And where we’re trying to shift the dialogue back to is a focus on the physician-patient relationship and the rights of individuals to determine what medical procedures they may receive and the importance of them having truly informed consent, informed by both a comprehensive understanding of the risks and the benefits.”

Malone concluded by pointing out that a “major battle” is currently underway in the states over allowing individual choice regarding irreversible medical procedures like vaccine injections.

“We are in the middle of a major battle,” he observed. “It’s a cultural battle. … You could say it’s a religious battle also, and we wouldn’t be off. There are many states that are rejecting these changes, and they insist still on the utilitarian idea that the state has the right to determine what medical procedures you will receive.”