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30 September
7:59 pm

We never made a vaccine available for a child until the medical professionals and the science community said it was safe.

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Xavier Becerra, at California Governor General Election Debate (CNN)

7:59 pm
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Why we checked itThis is a specific assertion about the process by which vaccines were approved for children — verifiable against FDA/CDC approval timelines and procedures.
What we foundThe claim is broadly consistent with established U.S. vaccine authorization policy, which requires FDA safety review and advisory committee endorsement before any vaccine is made available to children, though the RotaShield episode shows that approved vaccines can later be found to carry risks not fully identified at the time of authorization.
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