Have 50+ Mississippi Babies Died Following Routine Vaccines?
No, but it is a good lesson in how anti-vaccine influencers create their propaganda.
Why do some people think that over fifty Mississippi babies have died following routine vaccines?
The usual suspects…
Have 50+ Mississippi Babies Died Following Routine Vaccines?
But while attaching VAERS reports to fifty strollers might scare some parents away from vaccinating their kids, it is also very easy to see that it is pure propaganda.
While the organizations behind these campaigns want you to believe that these are vaccine deaths, it is easy to see that they aren’t.
How?
Just look up the VAERS reports for yourself!
They do not sound like the VAERS report you would expect for a vaccine death, do they?
Anyway, to get to over 50 reports in VAERS with deaths in Mississippi (we got 51 reports), you have to include cases going all the way back to 1990, and you have to include children up to age two years.
Adding those up, while you do get to just over 50 reports, it ends up being about 1.5 VAERS deaths each year.
That number is even less impressive when you consider just how many vaccines kids are getting each year in Mississippi.
With nearly 35,000 babies being born and most getting vaccinated, there are likely over one million doses of vaccines being given each year!
So, even if they were real vaccine deaths (and many clearly are not), they would be close to being one in a million type reactions.
Why is that important?
Because vaccines are protecting our kids from diseases that are much more harmful than that!
Again though, you also have to understand that most of these are not real vaccine deaths…
A baby dying from accidental suffocation after getting their head wedged between a pillow and their bed is not a vaccine death, even though it is in VAERS!
A baby dying and having a positive toxicology screen is not a vaccine death, even though it is in VAERS!
A premature baby dying after falling asleep on dad’s chest, while tragic, is not a vaccine death, even though it is in VAERS!
Neither is an infant who dies with viral pneumonia, even though it is in VAERS!
Nor, a patient with some kind of viral encephalitis, even though it is in VAERS!
So why are anti-vaccine influencers using the deaths of those kids to push their anti-vaccine agenda?
Remember, VAERS is a passive reporting system and these reports do not mean that a vaccine was to blame for the deaths or injuries.
Hopefully you can see that now after looking at these reports that anti-vaccine influencers present as vaccine deaths.
These are babies who were vaccinated and then coincidentally died, not deaths that were caused by vaccines.
It is not a campaign from the parents of 50 kids who died because they were vaccine injured and brought their strollers to protest vaccines.
It is a propaganda campaign from a small group of very vocal parents who believe that vaccines are harmful and unnecessary. They bought many of the 50 strollers and simply attached print-outs with VAERS IDs on them.
Hopefully you understand that with so many kids getting vaccinated each and every day, if you do the math, there are going to be some that will die in the hours, days, and weeks that follow. These are kids that would have died even if they had not been vaccinated.
Vaccines are safe, with few risks, and are necessary.
True vaccine deaths are extremely rare.
Don’t let this type of propaganda scare you away from vaccinating and protecting your kids.
References
'Vaccines saving babies' despite group's billboard saying otherwise https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/22/vaccines-saving-babies-despite-groups-billboard-saying-otherwise/589803001/
United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public Health Service (PHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) 1990 - 03/28/2025, CDC WONDER On-line Database. Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html on May 5, 2025 9:40:08 PM
They may have died at a time point after vaccination, but there is ZERO evidence to support the implication that the particular vaccine dose CAUSED any of those deaths! This is a BS headline, for creating clickbait for the anti-vax brigade - AGAIN.