A Baby Died After Vaccination
I watched every mother’s nightmare unfold yesterday in a conversation on a local online mom’s group. It began when the baby’s aunt asked frantically for prayers for her nephew, who had gotten his four-month shots that day and was found unresponsive in the evening. Then we learned the baby had apparently bled from every orifice […]
NVIC’s “No Forced Vaccination” Message Back Up in Times Square as Americans Fight for Human Rights
There have been 101 cases of measles that have been reported in 10 states since the beginning of 2019,1 hardly a public health emergency in a U.S. population of more than 320 million people where 94 percent of school children have received two doses of MMR vaccine and only two percent of children have a […]
Do Vaccines Really Prevent 2.5 Million Children from Dying Each Year?
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that vaccination prevents between 2-3 million deaths worldwide each year and that an additional 1.5 million deaths could be avoided if vaccination coverage improved. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) qualifies this estimate by specifying that vaccines “prevent an estimated 2.5 million deaths among children younger than age […]
Woman Paralyzed by Tetanus-Diphtheria Vaccine Still ‘Firmly Pro-Vaccine’
There is an article in “indy100” website sponsored by the British newspaper The Independent that highlights a vaccine reaction experience of a woman named Tiffany Yonts, who was given the tetanus-diphtheria (Td) vaccine when she was 14 years old. The article is titled “Woman who developed lifelong illness from vaccine hits out at anti-vaxxers” and […]
Will AFM Cases Decline in 2019?
The number of confirmed cases of the polio-like disorder known as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) reached 196 in 2018 in the United States. This was up significantly from 35 confirmed cases in 2017, 149 in 2016, 22 in 2015 and 120 in 2014. Strictly on the basis on this up-and-down annual cycle, some “experts” are […]
Golden Globes’ Bizarre Flu Shot Shtick Backfires
One of the most surreal moments in television history took place at the 76th Golden Globe Awards ceremony at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Jan. 6, 2019. In what appeared to be a pre-planned stunt, show co-hosts Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg announced that the audience in attendance would be treated […]