Study finds positive correlation between vaccinations and death among infants

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Abstract

In this study, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database, 1990–2010, was investigated; cases that specified either hospitalization or death were identified among 38,801 reports of infants. Based on the types of vaccines reported, the actual number of vaccine doses administered, from 1 to 8, was summed for each case. Linear regression analysis of hospitalization rates as a function of (a) the number of reported vaccine doses and (b) patient age yielded a linear relationship with r 2 = 0.91 and r 2 = 0.95, respectively. The hospitalization rate increased linearly from 11.0% (107 of 969) for 2 doses to 23.5% (661 of 2817) for 8 doses and decreased linearly from 20.1% (154 of 765) for children aged <0.1 year to 10.7% (86 of 801) for children aged 0.9 year. The rate ratio (RR) of the mortality rate for 5–8 vaccine doses to 1–4 vaccine doses is 1.5 (95% confidence interval (CI), 1.4–1.7), indicating a statistically significant increase from 3.6% (95% CI, 3.2–3.9%) deaths associated with 1–4 vaccine doses to 5.5% (95% CI, 5.2–5.7%) associated with 5–8 vaccine doses. The male-to-female mortality RR was 1.4 (95% CI, 1.3–1.5). Our findings show a positive correlation between the number of vaccine doses administered and the percentage of hospitalizations and deaths. Since vaccines are given to millions of infants annually, it is imperative that health authorities have scientific data from synergistic toxicity studies on all combinations of vaccines that infants might receive. Finding ways to increase vaccine safety should be the highest priority.

http://het.sagepub.com/content/31/10/1012.full

[Zippyjuan]

I don't see any comparison between vaccinated kids and not vaccinated kids so you can't say if your child is more or less likely to be hospitalized if they have received vaccinations. Children receive more vaccines as they get older so it would make perfect sense that older kids were more likely to have visited the hospital for being sick than younger ones (those who had received fewer vaccines). That would also mean that the more vaccines a child has, the likely taller they are as well. There is no indication of cause and effect.

The study does note:

When stratified by year, there was no correlation in hospitalization rates (r2 = 0.03) and a weak correlation in mortality rates (r2 = 0.40) during the studied time period,

It also adds this about their own data they used:

Anyone can file a VAERS report regardless of a true cause-and-effect relationship between the administration of a vaccine and an adverse event that succeeds it. Thus, some reports are likely to be unrelated to vaccinations. In addition, erroneous diagnoses may cause some adverse events in the VAERS database to be inaccurate descriptions of the event that occurred. For example, a seizure may be reported as a simple case of fainting and vice versa.

Basically saying that the data they tried to use to make the connections with was itself questionable which makes their conclusions also questionable.

It goes on:

The correlation of increasing hospitalizations and deaths with increasing number of vaccine doses is based solely on the number of vaccine doses associated with each VAERS case report, without differentiating between the types or composition of vaccines administered.

Unfortunately, VAERS does not provide information regarding background incidence of adverse events in the general population nor does it provide historical information such as the age-specific vaccine doses actually administered to the patient. These methodological limitations require supplementary information from vaccine manufacturers that is often proprietary, or novel approaches to handling VAERS data. Thus, in our analysis the total number of VAERS reports used in the rate calculations serves as a surrogate denominator that is proportionately related to the actual number of vaccine doses distributed or administered.25

[KingNothing]

Woah, woah, woah Zippy. Don't go investigating this claim. Don't you know how this sort of hysteria is supposed to work?