Pfizer, Moderna shares plunge on report that Trump officials plan to link 25 child deaths to COVID vaccine | 12 Sept 2025 | Shares in Pfizer and Moderna fell 3.9% and 7.4%, respectively, Friday after a report that the Trump administration plans to link the deaths of 25 children to COVID vaccines. Trump health officials plan to include the claim in a presentation next week to a panel of advisors to the CDC that is considering new COVID vaccine recommendations…according to the Washington Post. Those deaths were seemingly gathered from information submitted to the government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, according to the report. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – who was recently grilled by senators from both parties at a tense hearing on vaccines — ousted every member of the [industry-installed] vaccine panel earlier this year and replaced them with his own picks.