An 8-year-old girl in Texas died Thursday morning of “measles pulmonary failure,” according to The New York Times, citing records it obtained.

A Trump administration official told the paper the girl’s cause of death is “still being looked at.”

Narrator: It wasn’t still being looked at

  • killabeezio@lemm.ee
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    19 days ago

    This is not coming from me btw.

    VAERS is not designed to assess cause and effect, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event (AE) or illness. Some reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. Most reports to VAERS are voluntary, which means they are subject to bias. Data from VAERS reports should be interpreted with these limitations in mind.

    VAERS reporting can be done by anyone: Vaccine providers, other health care professionals, local public health agencies, vaccine recipients, patients, and/or family members of people who have received a vaccine are encouraged to submit a VAERS report when an adverse event occurs after vaccination.

    Seems pretty clear to me. Not sure how you can sit there and say that this is a reliable data source. This may help detect certain issues and patterns, but it’s not a data source in which you can call a source of truth. Someone would need to further investigate each report to make a better determination.

    You say it’s against the law to make false statements, but this doesn’t matter when there is no control and these statements can be made with complete bias. It’s not that people are lying, they believe what they are saying, but it doesn’t mean the information is actually true.

    There are plenty of other studies around vaccines that show the risks like you mentioned, but they also show that the benefits far outweigh the downside. I don’t even know why politics has anything to do with this. We are talking about facts and science and I don’t understand how politics has anything to do with this.

    I honestly don’t even understand what you are even arguing for. You just sound like an old guy yelling at the kids to get off his lawn.