Vaccines are safe and effective? Not so for Cheron Golding, who received a flu shot in 2013 and developed transverse myelitis, a disease on par with the worst aspects of polio: paralysis, loss of vision, etc. She took her case to vaccine court and won.
It’s good that she received the payment, but the question needs to be answered: how can an allegedly innocuous medical procedure cause a complication as severe as transverse myelitis? There are around 1,400 new cases of this polio-like illness in the United States each year, with over 33,000 Americans affected permanently in some manner by the illness. With all the fear-mongering circulating about polio, why don’t we hear more about those numbers? How many cases are vaccines responsible for? This is important. Vaccine injuries need to be spoken about plainly, even if only to confront the fact that safer vaccines need to be developed. Hiding the problem, or denying that it exists, is harming thousands needlessly. The logic goes that if some vaccines were perceived by the public as unsafe, then vaccine uptake would plummet. It would take years, maybe decades to rebuild public confidence, so health authorities believe it to be better to deny vaccine injury rates at every instance. I believe this to be the cause of the phenomenon of giving multiple vaccines in a single visit. If a doctor were to admit that more than one vaccine at a time is dangerous, the first question would be, why? And so now we have doctors administering combinations of vaccines at once, despite their never having been tested for reactions.
Combining various medications and administering them to a child all at once would be insane if it were any other product. But for vaccines it is standard procedure, regardless of the outcome.
