Australian Senate Demands Answers on Why COVID Vaccine Deaths Were Not Investigated

In 2022, Australia recorded 18,398 adverse event reports following COVID-19 vaccination. Of these, 160 involved a fatal outcome. Six of the reported deaths occurred in children aged 0 to 17.

Senator Alex Antic, during the December 2025 round of Senate estimates, asked the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) if none of the reported child deaths escalated for expert investigation. (Video Below)

“It was very unfortunate, that from the beginning, what was presented to us by public health officials was a picture of great certainty. But the reality was that there were extremely important unknowns. We entered a situation where essentially the stakes became too high to later present that uncertainty to people...I think that’s what set us off on the wrong foot. Public officials should have been a lot more forthright about the gaps in our knowledge…They should immediately be warning people about this safety signal that we found, and they should immediately be replicating our analysis. The data are indicating there’s increased risk at a level that is much higher than has previously been realized.”

- Dr. Peter Doshi, Senior Editor at the British Medical Journal and associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy commenting on COVID-19 vaccine safety. Quote taken from this interview.

On November 28, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Dr Vinay Prasad, issued a memo claiming that COVID-19 vaccines have killed at least 10 children in the United States, as well as his opinion that this number is “certainly an underestimate due to underreporting, and inherent bias attribution.”

I am writing to report that OBPV career staff have found that at least 10 children have died after and because of receiving the COVID-19 vaccination. These deaths are related to vaccination (likely/probable/possible attribution made by staff). That number is certainly an underestimate due to underreporting, and inherent bias in attribution.

Prior to this being reported, STAT published information describing an internal meeting in which FDA scientist, Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg, presented evidence of young people who had died after Covid vaccination.

Her findings triggered pushback from career FDA regulators.

Twelve former FDA commissioners published a reply to Dr Prasad’s memo in the New England Journal of Medicine. They criticized the memo for “offer[ing] no explanation of the process and analyses that were used to reach the new retrospective judgment [on the causes of deaths], nor did it indicate why that assessment should justify wholesale rewriting of vaccine regulations.”

Høeg and other top scientists at the current FDA wanted to change the label of all COVID-19 vaccines to state that the risks outweighed the benefits for men aged 12 to 24.

Let’s be clear, and it’s probably obvious to anyone reading this: Vaccine Injury Reporting systems from around the world, since the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, have reported a record number of serious adverse events. VAERS alone, the vaccine injury reporting system that the CDC has always used, had millions of reports. This drastically shattered all other injury reports from all other vaccines combined since VAERS was created in 1990. That alone, despite many of the problems and faults associated with vaccine injury reporting systems, is shocking to say the least.

Before the pandemic, VAERS was receiving nearly 60 000 adverse event reports each year. The agency had the capacity to request records for just a few thousand serious reports each year. But in 2021, the total number of reports shot up to over a million and kept climbing thereafter.

The BMJ has learnt that in the face of an unprecedented 1.7 million reports since the rollout of covid vaccines, VAERS’s staffing was likely not commensurate with the demands of reviewing the serious reports submitted, including reports of death. While other countries have acknowledged deaths that were “likely” or “probably” related to mRNA vaccination, the CDC—which says that it has reviewed nearly 20 000 preliminary reports of death using VAERS (far more than other countries)—has not acknowledged a single death linked to mRNA vaccines.

- Jennifer Block, British Medical Journal, November 2023.

These sentiments have emerged because there is an abundance of published medical literature/science showing the mechanisms of action by which serious injury and death could have occurred as a result of COVID-19, and can occur as a results of COVID-19 vaccination.

Multiple countries have experienced the same phenomenon, including Australia. In September 2025, the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) uploaded a report summarizing Australia’s spontaneous surveillance data for adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) for Covid-19 vaccines administered in 2022.

In 2022, Australia recorded 18,398 adverse event reports following COVID-19 vaccination. Of these, 160 involved a fatal outcome. Six of the reported deaths occurred in children aged 0 to 17.

Senator Alex Antic, during the December 2025 round of Senate estimates, asked the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) why none of the reported child deaths escalated for expert investigation.

Among children, the median interval between vaccination and death was 4.5 days. For young adults aged 18–29, it was just three days.

The majority of the 160 reported deaths in the NCIRS Report occurred within a median of less than two weeks following vaccination. This fact calls into question the “reassuring safety profile” claimed by the report.

Surprisingly, the report states, “Only one death following a Covid-19 vaccine administered in 2022 was assessed by TGA as likely to be causally linked to vaccination.”

But, only two of the 160 reported deaths — and none of the six child deaths - were referred to the Vaccine Safety Investigation Group (VSIG) for expert causality assessment. They weren’t investigated and simply ignored.

On 27 March 2025, the recommendation for healthy children to receive Covid vaccines, was quietly withdrawn. There was no political announcement, no press conference and little media attention.

The change came via a brief statement by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) advising that recommendations for healthy children under 18 had been revised.

Two months later, the Australian Immunisation Handbook was updated to reflect that the “risk of severe illness is extremely low in this cohort over the course of the pandemic, and benefits of vaccination are not considered to outweigh the potential harms.”

This assessment was not new. The minimal risk posed to children from the disease had been known since 2020.

During such a crucial period, reports of death — an adverse event with the potential to overturn a politically favourable benefit-risk balance — were filtered out rather than escalated and investigated.

What happened during the COVID-19 pandemic was unprecedented, and it’s one of many examples where corrupt political agendas reign supreme over truth and transparency. Information was conveyed to the public in a black and white manner, when there were many heavy shaded areas of grey.

Will we ever receive truth, transparency and acknowledgement? Or will this event be similar to others, like 9/11, where glaring and obvious holes in “official” narratives continue to exist.