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REMOVED: Vaccines and sudden infant death: An analysis of the VAERS database 1990–2019 and review of the medical literature
Neil Z. Miller2021
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11 citations · Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
RetractedOpen Access

TLDR

Most infant deaths reported after vaccination happened within a week of getting the shots. This pattern suggests a possible link, but it does not prove vaccines cause these deaths.

Summary

1 Study Aim

The paper aims to investigate whether there is a pattern in the timing of infant deaths after vaccination, using the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database. The author also reviews medical literature to see if there is evidence supporting a connection between vaccines and sudden unexplained infant deaths. The goal is to determine if infant deaths cluster soon after vaccination, which could suggest a possible link. Simply put: The study wants to find out if babies are more likely to die soon after getting vaccines.

2 Study Design

The research analyzes reports from the VAERS database between 1990 and 2019, focusing on infants under one year old who died within 60 days of vaccination. Two groups were studied: all infant deaths and those specifically labeled as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The timing of deaths after vaccination was examined to see if they clustered in the days following vaccination. Statistical tests were used to check if the number of deaths was higher than expected by chance. Simply put: The study looked at when babies died after getting vaccines to see if deaths happened more often right after the shots.

3 Findings

The study reveals that 58% of all infant deaths and 51% of SIDS cases reported to VAERS happened within 3 days of vaccination, and about 78% and 75% respectively occurred within 7 days. This clustering was much higher than expected by random chance and was statistically significant. The author reviews other studies and case reports that also found similar patterns. The paper discusses possible biological reasons, such as immune reactions affecting the brain's control of breathing. However, the study notes that these findings do not prove vaccines cause these deaths, and reporting bias or other factors could play a role. The author recommends more investigation, better cause-of-death reporting, and restoring vaccination as an official cause-of-death category in medical records. Simply put: Most reported baby deaths after vaccines happened soon after the shots, but this does not prove vaccines are the cause.

Abstract

Although there is considerable evidence that a subset of infants has an increased risk of sudden death after receiving vaccines, health authorities eliminated "prophylactic vaccination" as an official cause of death, so medical examiners are compelled to misclassify and conceal vaccine-related fatalities under alternate cause-of-death classifications. In this paper, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database was analyzed to ascertain the onset interval of infant deaths post-vaccination. Of 2605 infant deaths reported to VAERS from 1990 through 2019, 58 % clustered within 3 days post-vaccination and 78.3 % occurred within 7 days post-vaccination, confirming that infant deaths tend to occur in temporal proximity to vaccine administration. The excess of deaths during these early post-vaccination periods was statistically significant (p < 0.00001). A review of the medical literature substantiates a link between vaccines and sudden unexplained infant deaths. Several theories regarding the pathogenic mechanism behind these fatal events have been proposed, including the role of inflammatory cytokines as neuromodulators in the infant medulla preceding an abnormal response to the accumulation of carbon dioxide; fatal disorganization of respiratory control induced by adjuvants that cross the blood-brain barrier; and biochemical or synergistic toxicity due to multiple vaccines administered concurrently. While the findings in this paper are not proof of an association between infant vaccines and infant deaths, they are highly suggestive of a causal relationship.

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