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

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/fda-official-youtube-videos

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

Channel was an attempt to ‘preserve’ what Trump officials in current Trump administration said during the pandemic

Stephanie Kirchgaessner
Sun 31 Aug 2025 14.14 EDT

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.

Howard’s entire channel has now been deleted by YouTube, which cited copyright infringement.

The now-defunct channel contained about 350 videos of doctors and commentators, including Prasad, Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of health and human services, and Jay Bhattacharya, the head of the National Institutes of Health, which had been collected by Howard from their social media accounts, interviews and podcasts.

Creating the channel, Howard told Guardian in an interview, had been an attempt to “preserve” what these individuals had said during the early years of the pandemic, including comments that Howard said exaggerated the dangers of the Covid vaccine to children and – in some cases – minimized the risk of Covid infection, among other issues.

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