It has been nearly five years since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fast-tracked the COVID-19 mRNA biologic and distributed it under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommending the COVID shot for every American. This was followed by many workplaces and universities across the country mandating the injection. Now, more than one-third of Americans say COVID shots brought on side effects, with 10 percent saying the side effects suffered were “major.”1
The latest Rasmussen Reports survey found that 68 percent of adults say they received a COVID shot, with 26 percent of those vaccinated saying they had minor side effects and 10 percent reporting major side effects.
According to the report, “Based on a U.S. adult population of 258 million, this would mean 63 million had at least some side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine, including more than 17 million who experienced major side effects.” Of those Americans who did not get vaccinated, 70 percent consider it at least somewhat likely that side effects of the vaccine caused a significant number of unexplained deaths.2
CDC Vaccine Advisory Committee Member Says Vaccine Side Effects Must Be Promptly Investigated
Robert Malone, MD, a member of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), stated that while polling is subject to sampling and bias errors, the findings of the Rasmussen Reports document “a clear trend and suggest that official public health data significantly underreported the frequency and severity of adverse events experienced by U.S. residents with the COVID-19 vaccine products. The reasons for this discrepancy must be promptly and objectively investigated.”1
FDA to Tighten Regulations After Childhood Deaths Linked to Vaccine
Last month, the director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, announced that the vaccine licensing process will be tightened after an internal review found that at least 10 children had died “after and because of receiving” the COVID vaccine.3
FDA commissioner Marty Makary, MD followed up and said that his agency would no longer “rubber stamp new products that don’t work.” His comments came the day after Dr. Prasad told his team that the agency would be changing its annual flu vaccine framework, update vaccine labels to be “honest”, and make additional changes to how the agency reviews vaccines. Prasad also said that the FDA would no longer authorize vaccines for pregnancy women without stricter requirements.4
Prior to these announced changes, the United States has had the fastest process for licensing drugs and biologics of all pharmaceutical safety regulating agencies in the world, with a large portion of the FDA’s funding for fast tracking coming from the pharmaceutical companies themselves.4
Confidence in COVID Shots Has Decreased Worldwide
Research suggests that public confidence in the COVID shots, as well as vaccinations in general, has seen a significant decline worldwide. Of 55 countries polled, 52 of those countries have seen a drop in vaccine confidence since 2019. Data analytics and market research company YouGov found an 11 percent increase in adults believing that vaccines have harmful side effects that are not being disclosed to the public. In 2019, 19 percent of adults shared this belief, and that percentage rose to 30 percent by 2024.5
“Informed Consent is Back” Says CDC Acting Director
In September 2025, the CDC abandoned its previous universal COVID shot recommendations for healthy children and adults, and stated that Americans should get the vaccine “based upon individual-based decision making.” The ACIP voted unanimously for the change to take place.6
“Informed consent is back,” stated Jim O’Neill, acting director of the CDC. “CDC’s 2022 blanket recommendation for perpetual COVID boosters deterred health care providers from talking about the risks and benefits of vaccination for the individual or parent. That changes today.”6
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Click here to view References:1 Bedard, P. More Americans claim ‘major side effects’ from COVID-19 vaccine. Washington Examiner Nov. 21, 2025.
2 Rasmussen Reports. Millions experienced COVID-19 vaccine side effects. Nov. 21, 2025.
3 Stein R, Lupkin S. FDA to raise hurdles for vaccines, faulting COVID shots for 10 kids’ deaths. NPR Nov. 29, 2025.
4 Hobley, N. Group B Strep vaccine for pregnant women on fast track for FDA approval. The Vaccine Reaction Dec. 12, 2022.
5 Reed, J. Rise of vaccine distrust- why more of us are questioning jabs. BBC Jan. 16, 2025.
6 Soucheray S. CDC announces changes to COVID, childhood vaccines, touting ‘informed consent’. CIDRAP Oct. 6, 2025.
11 Responses
This is exciting news! I am one of the 70% that consider the side effects of the Covid shot caused deaths and lifelong side effects. No, I am not clinical, but I read and listen to those who are, and I trusted from the beginning those that said do not take the shot and I did not. I pray for those who did as I wonder now as I see so many young people dying from cancer if they too took the shot and these are the devastating side effects.
My hope is that eventually they will remove mandatory flu vaccines in the healthcare industry. During the last few years of my time in the healthcare industry if you did not have an exemption and refused you lost your job. So unfair! To have to put something into your body that you do not want to keep your job and then if you had side effects the healthcare entity would deny it was related. If you got sick from the shot and missed work you had to use your own sick leave to recover.
Thank God for our new leadership discovering the truth and sharing with the public.
Watch out for snakes in the grass. It appears that the ugly pandemic health policy stumbles that dramatically lowered public confidence in physicians and hospitals (as per the JAMA report described on The Vaccine Reaction) has spurred a scrambling to restore public confidence and trust in mainstream healthcare. The problem is while an easing up of corrupt and arrogant stances in healthcare takes center stage, a draconian surveillance technocracy is still coming to the fore with the ardent assistance of the current POTUS administration. It’s the usual playbook of “Don’t look here, look over there!” TPTB can’t sustain an obedient citizenry when they don’t trust the technocrats (rule by “experts”) in a private equity controlled economic system.
Hospitals and healthcare facilities will not remove their mandatory flu shots. It’s a good business. They do not care about you, you are always replaceable. ( I got fired after 20 years in healthcare for not getting the C shot).
Find a different profession, please.
I think a lot of the side effects from the COVID vaccines and the boosters weren’t reported by doctors. My 62 year old brother and my 40 year old daughter now have cancer. My 83 yr old mother received the vaccine and a booster and got new onset Psoriasis very quickly followed by Psoriatic Arthritis. My daughter had such a bad reaction, refused to go to the hospital, too. After getting home after receiving her vaccine which was after her 40 minute wait after the vaccine, she suddenly got a 104° fever, was vomiting and had to take a shower in cool water to get her fever down. She had called me in a sheer panic telling me that she was dying! None of these reactions were reported.
I’m very sorry your daughter and brother have cancer. Your testimony is an important reminder that we still know very little about the full ramifications of RNA injections. Contrast this with recent news reporting a study that showed cancer patients who were given the COVID vax along with a monoclonal antibody showed substantially increased survival rates compared to those who received only the monoclonal. Given the COVID spike appeared to code for several robust immune system triggers, we might conclude it has built in adjuvants just like the patented TriMix genetically embedded adjuvants used in human mRNA cancer trials prior to the pandemic. There are safer ways to stimulate the immune system but the theme of using mRNA with monoclonals is being pursued so RNA tx can get a boost into mainstream medicine.
Or, in other words: 32% not yet know their injuries, 26% not yet know the extent of their injuries and 10% not yet realize they are in the preliminary stages of death.
Hail Caesar. We who are about to die, salute you!
Obviously, those murdered by the COVID-19 shots were not interviewed by the Rasmussen survey about their side effects, so the number with serious side effects is actually higher.
Obviously, those murdered by the COVID-19 injections were not interviewed to report on their adverse effects, so the results for serious adverse effects are actually higher.
I heard this term “x-vaxxer” from Del Bigtree. Formerly pro-vaxx now not trusting any of them. Anti-vaxxer is reserved for the smartest among us who already knew and courageously spoke out.
The Covid poison shot mandate has to be one of the most tragic health debacles in America’s history. And it was totally avoidable! I still can’t believe anyone would run out and get that shot! And after all the truth about the shot and how dangerous it is to our health have been exposed, people are still getting the shot!!! I will never understand how some people think…or maybe they don’t…
I’m so thankful my husband, our kids, grandkids, and great grandkids and myself (17 in all) were all on the same page and used our brains, and just said, NO! to the poison!
The COVID vaccines increase my confidence in vaccines.
yep I am much more confident that vaccines are not healthy!