If You Vaccinate, Ask 8!
Vaccines are pharmaceutical products that come with risk that can be greater for some people. No vaccine is safe for everyone. If you choose to vaccinate, ask eight questions before you do. Number one. Am I sick right now? Getting vaccinated while sick could increase risks for a vaccine reaction or lower vaccine effectiveness. Number […]
Parents and Doctors Debate on Vaccinations
Stephanie Stock is a working mom of two boys in northeast Ohio. She’s also a mom who now chooses not to vaccinate both boys. My oldest son, he had a vaccine reaction at four months, and my doctor told me… oh, you know, it was a coincidence, these things happen sometimes. I knew something was […]
Blasdell Boy Stuck in Vaccine Debate
A student with a severe health condition is not allowed to go to school because of the state’s vaccination rules. Now, the student has cerebral palsy. His father tells 7 Eyewitness News reporter Taylor Epps that the student’s rights are being taken away, even though doctors say that getting vaccinated could really be harmful to […]
Leyo Smith’s Vaccine Reaction: Rash, Tics, Seizures, and Autism
Within three days after [he was vaccinated] that he started to have hives and welts and joint swelling. Leyo Smith was a year and a half old when he had a bad reaction to a vaccine. A federal vaccine court awarded damages for serious injuries. This video of Leyo Smith was shot about eights months […]
2019 Vaccine Awareness Week—Interview with Barbara Loe Fisher
It’s been an incredible year, an unprecedented year. In this country, the assault on vaccine exemptions has covered the whole country. The National Vaccine Information Center has monitored more than 500 vaccine-related bills that have been introduced in the states this year that we have actively reported on and issued action alerts, in many cases, […]
Are Vaccinations Safe for Your Kids?
This is Lynn and her son Jeremy, who has autism—a disabling brain affliction. But at 18 months old, he had a 10-word vocabulary and was growing normally. Then, two days after he received a shot for diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus, he was in the hospital. He was running a fever of 103 and he […]