Someone made a chart about vaccine deaths, saying it came from the CDC, and is using it to compare to an infant’s risk of natural death from vaccine-preventable disease.
Do you see any problems?
Are Infants More Likely to Die from Vaccines Than the Natural Diseases They Prevent?
Yes, that’s right.
They are misusing VAERS reports and claiming that they are vaccine deaths.
“When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associations between vaccines and adverse events (possible side effects) are filed in VAERS. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event.”
Guide to Interpreting VAERS Data
They are also leaving out the fact that deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases are low because most people are vaccinated and protected. Remember, one of the benefits of vaccines is that they got us out of the pre-vaccine era, when a lot of people died of these diseases. And most of us don’t want to go back!
If they scare enough people with this type of propaganda though and more people skip or delay their vaccines, then the diseases will come back and the risk of death increases.
“In a review of reports of death following vaccination submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from the early 1990s, the Institute of Medicine concluded that most were coincidental, not causally associated.”
Moro et al on Deaths Reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, United States, 1997–2013
That’s not even all that’s wrong with their little chart though.
They clearly say that they are talking about infants, but their chart says that it includes data for vaccines from birth to 18 years.
That should be evident when you realize that infants get neither hepatitis A nor MenB vaccines and there weren’t even any VAERS reports of deaths for infants for the hepatitis A vaccine in 2014. In fact, there has never been a report of a MenB vaccine death in VAERS for an infant.
So basically, these folks used inflated reports of deaths from VAERS that are likely coincidental and not associated with getting a vaccine and compared them to deaths that were reduced by the fact most folks are vaccinated and protected.
Don’t believe them. Vaccines are safe and necessary, with few serious side effects.
More on Misusing VAERS Reports
- VAXOPEDIA – Using and Misusing VAERS Reports
- VAXOPEDIA – Underreporting of Side Effects to VAERS
- VAXOPEDIA – How Many People Die in the USA Every Year from Being Vaccinated?
- VAXOPEDIA – How Many People Die from Vaccine Preventable Diseases These Days?
- VAXOPEDIA – First Day Deaths and the Hepatitis B Vaccine
- VAXOPEDIA – Anti-Vaccine Points Refuted A Thousand Times
- Guide to Interpreting VAERS Data
- CDC – What Would Happen If We Stopped Vaccinations?
- Study – Deaths following vaccination: What does the evidence show?
- Study – Deaths Reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, United States, 1997-2013.
- Study – Neonatal deaths after hepatitis B vaccine: the vaccine adverse event reporting system, 1991-1998.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci: Risks From Vaccines Are “Almost Nonmeasurable”
- Study: Vaccine halves risk of death from flu in kids
- Why Is Meningitis Still Causing Deaths on U.S. College Campuses?