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Claim: RSV vaccines are linked to deaths and neurological disorders; the CDC glossed over reports of deaths among vaccinated individuals (Michael Nevradakis, 2024-03-03)
Evidence (2024-06-26): The move comes after concerns were raised earlier this year that RSV vaccination may be linked to a heightened risk of a rare nervous system condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). The CDC advisory committee that updated the recommendations has called for more research on the topic, including a full safety analysis incorporating data from this past first full RSV season. RSV vaccination is now recommended for all people ages 75 and older. People ages 60 to 74 who are at increased risk for severe disease due to RSV should also get vaccinated. [...] "These updated recommendations are intended to maximize RSV vaccination coverage among persons most likely to benefit, by clarifying who is at highest risk and by reducing implementation barriers," the CDC report stated, particularly noting that one challenge had been last year’s advice that RSV vaccines should be given after people had a shared decision-making conversation with their medical provider. The report stated that "shared clinical decision-making has drawbacks. Providers find it confusing and time-consuming to implement."
Claim: RSV vaccines are linked to deaths and neurological disorders; the CDC glossed over reports of deaths among vaccinated individuals (Michael Nevradakis, 2024-03-03)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Two RSV vaccines for adults 60 and older were federally approved in 2023: [...] Here’s what we know about the side effects people have experienced after getting an RSV vaccine and what to expect if you get one. [...] The common side effects of RSV vaccines that have been reported — in clinical trials and through the national Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) — are similar to the common symptoms people experience after a flu shot or COVID-19 vaccine. They include:
Claim: RSV vaccines are linked to deaths and neurological disorders; the CDC glossed over reports of deaths among vaccinated individuals (Michael Nevradakis, 2024-03-03)
Evidence (2024-03-14): From these figures, the CHD article concluded that the RSV vaccines had "been linked to deaths and serious injuries" and that "experts" said that "it’s time to pull [the vaccines] from the market". [...] Second, the ACIP did look at the number of deaths among vaccinated individuals. The CDC presented data on the number of adverse events of special interest after RSV vaccination during the ACIP meeting on 28 February 2024, as shown in slide 22 of this presentation. [...] The CDC’s statistical analysis didn’t show a higher-than-expected number of deaths among the population who received the RSV vaccines. By contrast, the CDC found a higher-than-expected number of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome. However, the number of cases were small, hence there’s still not enough data yet to clearly establish a causal relationship between RSV vaccines and Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Claim: RSV vaccines are linked to deaths and neurological disorders; the CDC glossed over reports of deaths among vaccinated individuals (Michael Nevradakis, 2024-03-03)
Evidence (2023-08-17): THE FACTS: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week recommended babies receive a new shot to help protect them from RSV, a virus that is a cold-like nuisance for most healthy people but that can be dangerous for the very young and elderly. The move followed the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug, a lab-made antibody called nirsevimab developed by AstraZeneca and Sanofi that will be sold under the brand name Beyfortus. [...] "Despite 12 Deaths During Clinical Trials, CDC Signs Off on RSV Shots for Newborns," reads the headline in the posts. The headline comes from the website of Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group founded by now-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [...] An FDA briefing document reports that 11 babies who received the shots died; another who died had received an existing RSV drug called palivizumab. Some died from acute gastroenteritis and pneumonia; one suffered a skull base fracture in a car accident. Some of the babies also had underlying comorbidities, such as congenital heart disease or being born prematurely.
Claim: RSV vaccines are linked to deaths and neurological disorders; the CDC glossed over reports of deaths among vaccinated individuals (Michael Nevradakis, 2024-03-03)
Evidence (2020-03-18): Dizziness, headache, muscle pain, and paresthesia (a burning, tingling skin sensation) are common side effects of the vaccines. According to a detailed report by the CDC, no reliable data exists to suggest that any COVID-19 vaccine is associated with a higher risk of neurological disease. Overall, the benefits of COVID vaccination far outweigh the risks of developing neurological complications. So, please heed the recommendation of public health officials: To protect yourself and others, get vaccinated as soon as you are eligible.
Claim: RSV vaccines are linked to deaths and neurological disorders; the CDC glossed over reports of deaths among vaccinated individuals (Michael Nevradakis, 2024-03-03)
Evidence (2012-04-02): RSV vaccine developed in late sixties clearly failed. Fulginiti et al. (1969). Respiratory virus immunizations. I A field trial of two inactivated respiratory virus vaccines…Am J Epidemiology; 80 (4): 435-448) and others showed the vaccine ineffective, inducing exaggerated, altered clinical response…causing RSV illness requiring hospitalisations among vaccines and delayed dermal hypersensitivity. Simoes (1999. Respiratory syncytial virus infection. Lancet; 354: 847-852) wrote "Since it was identified as the agent that causes chimpanzee coryza in 1956, and after its subsequent isolation from children with pulmonary disease in Baltimore, USA, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) had been described as the single most important virus causing acute respiratory-tract infections in children. The WHO estimates that of the 12.2. million annual deaths in children under 5 years, a third are due to acute infections of the lower respiratory tract. Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and RSV are the predominant pathogens… vaccinated children were not protected from subsequent RSV infection. Furthermore, RSV-naïve infants who received formalin-inactivated RSV vaccine, and who were naturally infected with RSV later, developed more severe disease in the lower respiratory tract than a control group immunized with a trivalent parainfluenza vaccine".
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2020-07-02): Although cases of SIDS have occurred after the DTaP vaccine, there is no evidence to support the claim that the DTaP vaccine has caused these cases. Studies show that DTaP vaccines, and vaccination in general, are not associated with an increased risk of SIDS.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2014-11-01): Because diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and poliomyelitis vaccine is routinely given during the period of highest incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), we carried out a retrospective case-control study to assess whether such vaccination increased the risk of SIDS. The vaccination status of 118 SIDS and 332 control children, matched for sex, date of birth and age of the victims at death, was compared: the victims of SIDS were not significantly more often vaccinated than control children, the odds ratio was estimated at 1.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 0.9 to 3.9. There was a statistical difference between vaccination status of SIDS cases and controls aged less than three months. Nine percent of SIDS cases under 3 months had been vaccinated whereas the matched controls had not. In our study DTCP vaccination was not a risk factor for SIDS; although more of the SIDS infants less than 3 months of age had been vaccinated. This result however, concerns only one subgroup of the population studied and needs to be confirmed with another study of only SIDS infants less than 3 months of age, because DTCP vaccination was not a risk factor for SIDS when considering the total sample of the study. [...] Risk of sudden infant death syndrome after immunization with the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine.N Engl J Med. 1988 Sep 8;319(10):618-23. doi: 10.1056/NEJM198809083191006. N Engl J Med. 1988. PMID: 3261837 -
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2021-01-02): Over the years, several vaccines have been blamed for SIDS, including those for pertussis, tetanus, diphtheria, Hemophilus influenzae type B, polio, and hepatitis B. This misconception has triggered a lot of scientific study to find out if vaccines could, in fact, cause SIDS. However, multiple studies and safety reviews have concluded that the answer is no, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [...] A controlled study of the relationship between Bordetella pertussis infections and sudden unexpected deaths among German infants.Pediatrics. 2004 Jul;114(1):e9-15. doi: 10.1542/peds.114.1.e9. Pediatrics. 2004. PMID: 15231967 - Risk of sudden infant death syndrome after immunization with the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine.N Engl J Med. 1988 Sep 8;319(10):618-23. doi: 10.1056/NEJM198809083191006. N Engl J Med. 1988. PMID: 3261837 -
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2018-05-01): Risk of sudden infant death syndrome after immunization with the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine - PMID: 3261837 - DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198809083191006 [...] To evaluate recent immunization against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP) as a possible risk factor for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), we studied the rates of SIDS after the administration of DTP vaccine in a cohort of 129,834 children who were born in four urban Tennessee counties during the period from 1974 through 1984. All the children received at least one DTP immunization in the first year of life at county health-department clinics or from Medicaid providers. Computerized immunization records from these sources were linked with Tennessee birth and death certificates to establish the cohort, ascertain the timing of immunization, and identify cases of SIDS. These children represented 42 percent of the births in the four counties. Among these children, 204 deaths occurred at the ages of 29 to 365 days; 109 deaths were classified as due to SIDS. We estimated the risk of SIDS according to the length of time, up to 30 days, since DTP immunization and compared it with the risk 31 days or more after immunization to calculate the relative risk.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2024-07-08): A speculated link between vaccines and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) has been refuted,[1] but remains a common anti-vaccine claim.[2] The claim, attributed to Robert Mendelsohn in 1991[3][non-primary source needed] and promoted by anti-vaccination activists such as Viera Scheibner in the early 1990s, is that vaccines, especially the DTP vaccine that protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, sometimes causes sudden infant death syndrome. The World Health Organization has classified this as a "common misconception".[4] [...] - ^ "No, a Vaccine Court ruling does not show that vaccines cause SIDS". Science-Based Medicine. 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2019-02-01. [...] - ^ "Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)". www.cdc.gov. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2018-12-20. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2024-09-30): - Some studies have detected a small increased risk of febrile seizures in young children following the flu shot in some flu seasons. In these studies, the risk of febrile seizures was increased for children 12 through 23 months of age, particularly when the flu shot was given at the same time as pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV133) and diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP)-containing vaccine4. [...] CDC monitoring for the safety of vaccines [...] - Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD): a collaboration between CDC and eight integrated health care organizations that conducts ongoing vaccine safety monitoring and in-depth analysis of vaccine safety data.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2021-08-01): We compared the recency of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) immunization in healthy children with birthweights greater than 2500 gms who died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) to that of age-matched reference children, using a modified case-control analysis. Focusing on very narrow time intervals following immunization, we found the SIDS mortality rate in the period zero to three days following DTP to be 7.3 times that in the period beginning 30 days after immunization (95 per cent confidence interval, 1.7 to 31). The mortality rate of non-immunized infants was 6.5 times that of immunized infants of the same age (95 per cent CI, 2.2 to 19). The latter result and to some extent the former appear to be ascribable to known risk factors for SIDS. Although the mortality ratios for SIDS following DTP, as estimated from this study, are high the period of apparently elevated risk was very short, so that only a small proportion of SIDS cases in infants with birthweights greater than 2500 gms could be associated with DTP. [...] Risk of sudden infant death syndrome after immunization with the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine.N Engl J Med. 1988 Sep 8;319(10):618-23. doi: 10.1056/NEJM198809083191006. N Engl J Med. 1988. PMID: 3261837 - DTP immunization and SIDS.J Pediatr. 1984 Jul;105(1):169-71. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(84)80391-1. J Pediatr. 1984. PMID: 6610735 No abstract available.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2023-09-26): The claim: Insert in a DTaP vaccine package proves it causes SIDS [...] Cherie Duvall-Jones, an FDA spokesperson, told USA TODAY in an email that the agency is aware of a "very low" number of reports of SIDS after DTaP vaccination in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). She said the agency has not seen any safety concerns or a causal link. [...] A second paper looked directly at SIDS rates after DTaP vaccination in a population of more than 120,000 children over 11 years and found no increased risk of SIDS.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2021-06-29): No, vaccines do not cause sudden infant death syndrome [...] "There is ample and consistent evidence that vaccination following the CDC guidelines reduces the risk of SIDS by about 50%," said Dr. Guohua Li, a professor of epidemiology and anesthesiology at Columbia University, citing an analysis of nine vaccine studies. The DPT vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough alone can reduce the risk of SIDS by 10%, and the risk of SIDS has also been inversely correlated with immunization against polio. [...] Health Feedback, No causal association between the DTaP vaccine and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), February 7, 2020
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2024-01-01): The authors conducted a two-year prospective study on the vaccination status of infants with SIDS who died between 1 and 3 months of age to assess whether vaccination increased the risk of SIDS in this population in France. The authors found DTPP ± Hib immunization did not increase the risk of SIDS. [...] The authors evaluated recent immunization with DTP as a possible risk factor for SIDS during a 10-year period in Tennessee. They found no increase in the risk of SIDS after immunization with DTP vaccine and no correlation between SIDS and age at first immunization. Additionally, the rate of SIDS decreased in the first week after immunization. [...] The authors investigated the possible association between diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) immunization and subsequent occurrence of sudden infant death in the United States using data from a national SIDS epidemiological database. They found no temporal association between SIDS and DTP vaccine receipt. Infants with SIDS were less likely to have been immunized than infants without SIDS.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2023-01-01): In 1933, Madsen reported on two infants who received immunizations against pertussis shortly after birth and died within 2 hours of their second shot at ages 4 and 11 days, respectively. Although there were other isolated case reports of death following DPT immunization, current concern about pertussis and SIDS dates from March 1979, when the Tennessee Department of Health (Hutcheson, 1979a,b) reported that four sudden and unexplained deaths had occurred since November 1978; these infants had all died within 24 hours following their first DPT immunization. All four children had received vaccine from the same lot (lot A), which was the predominant lot in use in Tennessee at that time. A subsequent investigation confirmed a greater than expected temporal relation between lot A DPT vaccine and SIDS. However, the overall incidence of SIDS in Tennessee did not increase during the time period when lot A was in use, samples of lot A were found acceptable with regard to potency and freedom from toxicity when tested, and no other clusters of cases of SIDS associated with lot A (361,000 doses distributed) were reported (Bernier et al., 1982). Therefore, no other evidence was found to support a causal relationship. [...] The evidence does not indicate a causal relation between DPT vaccine and SIDS. Studies showing a temporal relation between these events are consistent with the expected occurrence of SIDS over the age range in which DPT immunization typically occurs.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2024-10-09): For unknown causes of SID, attributable factors have been sought from various approaches. For instance, forensic autopsy cases of unexpected simultaneous twin deaths have been investigated extensively.4,5 Roberts6 demonstrated such a twin death, which occurred a couple of hours after diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccination, speculating that the immunization potentially gives a clue for the attributable factors. Another case report described twins found dead simultaneously after combined vaccine including DTP.7 Forensic autopsy has also revealed sudden death after DTP with mast cell increase as a relation to vaccination.8 By contrast, several large-scale studies have revealed that increased DTP immunization coverage is associated with decreased sudden infant mortality.9–14 Therefore, most SID syndrome (SIDS) cases are regarded as merely coincident, with no particular relation to DTP vaccination.15 [...] Google Scholar 11. Walker AM, Jick H, Perera DR, et al. Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis immunization and sudden infant death syndrome. Am J Public Health. 1987;77:945–951. [...] Google Scholar 13. Müller-Nordhorn J, Hettler-Chen CM, Keil T, et al. Association between sudden infant death syndrome and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis immunisation: an ecological study. BMC Pediatr. 2015;15:2–8.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2024-03-07): Factually inaccurate: Studies have found no association between the DTaP vaccine and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Childhood vaccination isn’t a risk factor for SIDS. [...] Well-child visits are scheduled screenings and assessments for healthy children. They are also when childhood vaccines are normally given. The juxtaposition of the case report and the problem of SIDS, implicitly suggested that the DTaP vaccine causes SIDS. SIDS is the sudden death of a baby before one year of age that doesn’t have a known cause, despite a full investigation. However, scientific studies have found no association between SIDS and the DTaP vaccine[2-4]. There are various risk factors for SIDS, such as an underlying but undetected medical condition and placing a baby to sleep on their stomach. But childhood vaccination isn’t one of them.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2020-02-07): No causal association between the DTaP vaccine and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) Although cases of SIDS have occurred after the DTaP vaccine, there is no evidence to support the claim that the DTaP vaccine has caused these cases. Studies show that DTaP vaccines, and vaccination in general, are not associated with an increased risk of SIDS. Inaccurate: Studies show that the DTaP vaccine is not causally associated with SIDS. SIDS is not listed as a side effect (adverse reaction) to the vaccine.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2015-01-28): DTP and hepatitis B vaccines do not cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Other vaccines currently routinely recommended to the general population in the U.S. have not been shown to cause SIDS. [...] Griffin, M.R., et al., Risk of sudden infant death syndrome after immunization with the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine. N Engl J Med, 1988. 319(10): p. 618–23. [...] Dudley, M.Z. et al. (2018). Do Vaccines Cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)?.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2024-01-01): The relation between DPT and SIDS was examined by a previous Institute of Medicine committee in its investigation of the adverse effects of pertussis vaccine (Institute of Medicine, 1991). That committee concluded that the evidence favors rejection of a causal relation between DPT and SIDS. ''Studies showing a temporal relation between these events are consistent with the expected occurrence of SIDS over the age range in which DPT immunization typically occurs'' (Institute of Medicine, 1991, p. 141). Since both diphtheria and tetanus toxoids are components of DPT, it is likely that these toxoids are not causally associated with SIDS, although it is theoretically possible that pertussis vaccine could protect children from an effect of DT immunization on SIDS. Only one study (Pollock et al., 1984) compared the incidence of SIDS in cohorts of children who were immunized with DPT (13,917 doses) and DT (10,601 doses). Seven cases of SIDS occurred within 6 weeks of immunization, three (2.2 cases per 100,000 doses) in the DPT group and four (3.8 cases per 100,000 doses) in the DT group. [...] The evidence favors rejection of a causal relation between DPT and SIDS (Institute of Medicine, 1991). Pollock et al. (1984) presented data suggesting that the relative risk of SIDS after DPT versus that after DT is not significantly different from 1. In the committee's judgment the evidence favors rejection of a causal relation between DT and SIDS.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2024-06-25): - Fussiness, crying, restlessness, or decreased appetite in infants - [...] Have a positive experience. [...] Some people have wondered if vaccines can cause conditions such as autism, asthma, and SIDS or autoimmune diseases like diabetes and multiple sclerosis. However, there is no evidence that vaccines cause these conditions. We learn about a vaccine’s safety during clinical trials before it is approved and monitor it continually as millions of doses are administered after its approval. We’ve been monitoring the safety of vaccines for more than 50 years, and the chance a vaccine will cause unanticipated long-term health problems is extremely low.
Claim: The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS (Dawn Lorenz, 2020-07-02)
Evidence (2024-02-07): Do Vaccines Cause SIDS, Multiple Sclerosis, or Other Problems? There are concerns, many of which circulate on the Internet, linking some vaccines to multiple sclerosis, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), and other problems. To date, studies have not shown any connection between vaccines and these conditions. SIDS cases have actually dropped by more than 50% in recent years, while the number of vaccines given yearly continues to rise. [...] And talk with your doctor about which vaccines your kids need. Working together, you can help keep your family healthy.