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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner

Top FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos in which he criticized Covid vaccines

Dr Vinay Prasad in 2016.
Vinay Prasad is the FDA’s top vaccine regulator. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images

A top official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) demanded the removal of YouTube videos of himself that were published by a physician and writer who has been critical of medical misinformation and public health officials in the Trump administration, according to a YouTube notice that was seen by the Guardian.

Jonathan Howard, a neurologist and psychiatrist in New York City, received an email from YouTube on Friday night, which stated that Vinay Prasad, who is the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, had demanded the removal of six videos of himself from Howard’s YouTube channel.

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