Vaccine Fears Overturned by Facts

Welcome! We hope you’re here because you’ve explored Vaccine Fears Overturned by Facts, a booklet created in collaboration between Immunize Kansas Coalition and the creators of Back to the Vax, Heather Simpson, and Lydia Greene. If you haven’t viewed this new resource, we encourage you to reach out to us and take a peek. You’ll find resources and references shared throughout the booklet on this page.

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Use the list below to find the topic(s) from the booklet you wish to explore; after clicking you’ll be taken to the list of citations used in the booklet on the subject matter.

Booklet References

• Do Vaccines Cause Autism?
• VAERS Reports: Does Correlation = Causation?
• Were COVID-19 Vaccines Rushed?
• COVID-19’s False Profits
• Vaccines and Autoimmunity
• Vaccine Inserts and the Myth of the DTaP Cry
• Is Herd Immunity Real?
• COVID-19 and Children: Is it Just a Cold?
• The Safest Way to Get Immunity From a Disease
• Can Vaccines Cause SIDS?
• Facts Dismantle Fears of Formaldehyde
• The Truth About Vaccine Mercury
• Polysorbate 80 & the BBB
• Breaking Down COVID-19 Vaccine Ingredients
• Do Vaccines Cause Cancer?
• Does the COVID Vaccine Cause Sudden Adult Death Syndrome?
• Does mRNA Alter DNA?
• Aluminum and Vaccines
• Did Sanitation Eradicate Diseases?
• Social Media and the Spread of Misinformation
• Does the COVID Vaccine Cause Infertility & Miscarriage?
• Does the HPV Vaccine Cause Infertility?

Additional Resources

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• Do Vaccines Cause Autism?
  
• Anders Hviid, Jørgen Vinsløv Hansen, Morten Frisch, et al; Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med.2019;170:513-520. [Epub 5 March 2019]. doi:10.7326/M18-2101
• Uchiyama T, Kurosawa M, Inaba Y. MMR-vaccine and regression in autism spectrum disorders: negative results presented from Japan. J Autism Dev Disord. 2007 Feb;37(2):210-7. doi: 10.1007/s10803-006-0157-3. PMID: 16865547.
• Immunize.org has a wonderful collection of 27 studies that demonstrate vaccination is not associated with autism: www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4026.pdf
• VAERS Reports: Does Correlation = Causation?
  
• Rosenthal S, Chen R. The reporting sensitivities of two passive surveillance systems for vaccine adverse events. Am J Public Health. 1995 Dec;85(12):1706-9. doi: 10.2105/ajph.85.12.1706. PMID: 7503351; PMCID: PMC1615747.
• The Harvard Pilgrim project: Electronic Support for Public Health - Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Agency for Health Care and Research Quality (ESP:VAERS) https://digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-support-public-health-vaccine-adverse-event-reporting-system
• Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS) Grant Final Report Grant ID: R18 HS 017045 https://rickjaffeesq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-20116.pdf
• VAERS https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety-systems/vaers/index.html
• Were COVID-19 Vaccines Rushed?
  
• https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/basics/how-developed-approved.html
• V-Safe https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety-systems/v-safe/index.html
• Vaccine Safety Datalink https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety-systems/vsd/
• COVID-19’s False Profits
  
• COVID Statistics: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home
• Evidence to Recommendation Framework: Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 6 months – 5 years & Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 6 months – 4 years https://www.cdc.gov/acip/evidence-to-recommendations/covid-19-moderna-pfizer-children-vaccine-etr.html
• Vaccines and Autoimmunity
  
• Soldan, S.S., Lieberman, P.M. Epstein–Barr virus and multiple sclerosis. Nat Rev Microbiol (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-022-00770-5
• Ameratunga R, Gills D, Gold M, et al. Evidence refuting the existence of autoimmune/autoinflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA). J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract 2017;5:1551-1555.
• Smatti MK, Cyprian FS, Nasrallah GK, Al Thani AA, Almishal RO, Yassine HM. Viruses and Autoimmunity: A Review on the Potential Interaction and Molecular Mechanisms. Viruses. 2019 Aug 19;11(8):762. doi: 10.3390/v11080762. PMID: 31430946; PMCID: PMC6723519.
• Alam J, Kim YC, Choi Y. Potential role of bacterial infection in autoimmune diseases: a new aspect of molecular mimicry. Immune Netw. 2014 Feb;14(1):7-13. doi: 10.4110/in.2014.14.1.7. Epub 2014 Feb 21. PMID: 24605075; PMCID: PMC3942510.
• Vaccination Against Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Incident Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a National Cohort of Privately Insured Children Inflamm. Bowel Dis. 2022 Aug 20;[EPub Ahead of Print], C Kim, Z Yin, N Kamdar, R Stidham
• Vaccine Inserts and the Myth of the DTaP Cry
  
• Spencer JP, Trondsen Pawlowski RH, Thomas S. Vaccine Adverse Events: Separating Myth from Reality. Am Fam Physician. 2017 Jun 15;95(12):786-794. PMID: 28671426.
• Blumberg DA, Lewis K, Mink CM, Christenson PD, Chatfield P, Cherry JD. Severe reactions associated with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine: detailed study of children with seizures, hypotonic-hyporesponsive episodes, high fevers, and persistent crying. Pediatrics. 1993 Jun;91(6):1158-65. PMID: 8502521.
• Sean T. O’Leary, Yvonne A. Maldonado; Adverse Events Following Immunization: Will It Happen Again? . Pediatrics September 2017; 140 (3): e20171760. 10.1542/peds.2017-1760
• Is Herd Immunity Real?
  
• Herd Immunity image Tkarcher / CC BY-SA: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herd_immunity.svg
• Nicolas Fanget Pertussis: a tale of two vaccines. Nature 2020 https://www.nature.com/articles/d42859-020-00013-8
• COVID-19 and Children: Is it Just a Cold?
  
• Funk AL, Kuppermann N, Florin TA, et al. Post–COVID-19 Conditions Among Children 90 Days After SARS-CoV-2 Infection. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(7):e2223253. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.23253
• Dan-Yu Lin et al. Effects of Vaccination and Previous Infection on Omicron Infections in Children September 7, 2022 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2209371
• Singer ME, Taub IB, Kaelber DC. Risk of Myocarditis from COVID-19 Infection in People Under Age 20: A Population-Based Analysis. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2022 Mar 21:2021.07.23.21260998. doi: 10.1101/2021.07.23.21260998.
• Reported cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children aged 12–20 years in the USA who received a COVID-19 vaccine, December, 2020, through August, 2021: a surveillance investigation Yousaf, Anna RMuseru, Oidda et al. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, Volume 6, Issue 5, 303 – 312
• Myocarditis after BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine against Covid-19 in Israel Dror Mevorach, M.D. et al. December 2, 2021 N Engl J Med 2021; 385:2140-2149DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2109730
• Statistics on death and comorbidities. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
• Meeting minutes from ACIP on COVID vaccines. Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - pdf
• World Health Organization, Poliomyelitis: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/poliomyelitis
• CDC Pinkbook, Poliomyelitis: https://www.cdc.gov/pinkbook/hcp/table-of-contents/chapter-18-poliomyelitis.html
• Bixler D, Miller AD, Mattison CP, et al. SARS-CoV-2–Associated Deaths Among Persons Aged <21 Years — United States, February 12–July 31, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2020;69:1324–1329. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6937e4
• The Safest Way to Get Immunity From a Disease
  
• Zar HJ, MacGinty R, Workman L, Botha M, Johnson M, Hunt A, Burd T, Nicol MP, Flasche S, Quilty BJ, Goldblatt D. Natural and hybrid immunity following four COVID-19 waves: A prospective cohort study of mothers in South Africa. EClinicalMedicine. 2022 Sep 17;53:101655. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101655. PMID: 36128333; PMCID: PMC9481335.
• Nadig, M. et al. (2022) "Individuals with recent prior SARS-CoV-2 infection are at reduced risk of Omicron infection and associated hospitalization". medRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2022.08.10.22278641. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.10.22278641v1
• Ariel Hammerman et. al March 31, 2022 Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 Vaccine after Recovery from Covid-19 N Engl J Med 2022; 386:1221-1229 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2119497
• Eugene D. Shapiro, Marietta Vazquez, Daina Esposito, Nancy Holabird, Sharon P. Steinberg, James Dziura, Philip S. LaRussa, Anne A. Gershon, Effectiveness of 2 Doses of Varicella Vaccine in Children, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 203, Issue 3, 1 February 2011, Pages 312–315, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiq052
• https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/by-disease/varicella.html
• Tan, S. T. et al. Preprint at medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.08.22278547 (2022).
• Lyngse, F.P., Kirkeby, C.T., Denwood, M. et al. Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant of concern subvariants BA.1 and BA.2 in Denmark. Nat Commun 13, 5760 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33498-0
• Can Vaccines Cause SIDS?
  
• Lindgren, C., Milerad, J. & Lagercrantz, H. Sudden infant death and prevalence of whooping cough in the Swedish and Norwegian communities. Eur J Pediatr 156, 405–409 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004310050626
• M.M.T. Vennemann, M. Höffgen, T. Bajanowski, H.-W. Hense, E.A. Mitchell, Do immunisations reduce the risk for SIDS? A meta-analysis, June 2007 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.02.077.
• Julia M.L. Brotherton, Brynley P. Hull, Andrew Hayen, Heather F. Gidding, Margaret A. Burgess; Probability of Coincident Vaccination in the 24 or 48 Hours Preceding Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Death in Australia. Pediatrics June 2005; 115 (6): e643–e646. 10.1542/peds.2004-2185
• www.aap.org/en/patient-care/safe-sleep/
• Facts Dismantle Fears of Formaldehyde
  
• The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. “About This Section.” Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 4 Nov. 2014, https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-ingredients.
• Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP). “Vaccine Ingredients.” HHS.gov, 7 Jan. 2022, https://www.hhs.gov/immunization/basics/vaccine-ingredients/index.html.
• The Truth About Vaccine Mercury
  
• Iannelli, Vincent. “Which Vaccines Contain Mercury?” VAXOPEDIA, 11 Apr. 2021, https://vaxopedia.org/2021/04/11/which-vaccines-contain-mercury/.
• The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. “Thimerosal.” Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 7 Nov. 2014, https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-ingredients/thimerosal.
• “Thimerosal and Vaccines.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 Aug. 2020, https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety/about/thimerosal.html.
• Jo et. al., (2015). Estimation of the Biological Half-Life of Methylmercury Using a Population Toxicokinetic Model. International journal of environmental research and public health, 12(8), 9054–9067. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120809054
• Barrett J. R. (2005). Thimerosal and Animal Brains: New Data for Assessing Human Ethylmercury Risk. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113(8), A543–A544.
• Fonacier, L. and M. Boguniewicz (2016). 53 - Contact Dermatitis. Pediatric Allergy: Principles and Practice (Third Edition). D. Y. M. Leung, S. J. Szefler, F. A. Bonilla, C. A. Akdis and H. A. Sampson. London, Elsevier: 467-481.e463.
• Polysorbate 80 & the BBB
  
• Abraham Alahmad, PhD, Associate Professor in Pharmacology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Iannelli, Vincent. “Polysorbate 80 in Vaccines.” VAXOPEDIA, 22 Mar. 2021, https://vaxopedia.org/2016/09/07/polysorbate-80-in-vaccines/.
• Spigelman MK;Zappulla RA;Johnson J;Goldsmith SJ;Malis LI;Holland JF; “Etoposide-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption. Effect of Drug Compared with That of Solvents.” Journal of Neurosurgery, U.S. National Library of Medicine, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6470777/.
• Breaking Down COVID-19 Vaccine Ingredients
  
• “A Simple Breakdown of the Ingredients in the Covid Vaccines.” Hackensack Meridian Health, https://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/en/HealthU/2021/01/11/a-simple-breakdown-of-the-ingredients-in-the-covid-vaccines#.Y0MJZy9OlE4.
• “What Ingredients Are in the Covid-19 Vaccines?” CT.gov, https://portal.ct.gov/vaccine-portal/Vaccine-Knowledge-Base/Articles/Ingredients-In-Vaccine?language=en_US.
• The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. “Vec Home.” Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 19 Nov. 2014, https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center.
• Do Vaccines Cause Cancer?
  
• Levandovsky, Yana. “Do Vaccines Cause Cancer? Vaccines and Cancer: Is There a Link? - Denver Concierge Medicine.” Denver, Preventive Medicine and Cancer Care - 24/7 Full Integrative, Family & Concierge Medicine - Denver, 11 Dec. 2020, https://www.pmccdenver.com/preventive-health/vaccines-cause-cancer.
• Kasprak, Alex. “Did 60 Lab Studies Recently Confirm a Cancer Link to a Vaccine You Had as a Child?” Snopes.com, https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/07/17/polio-vaccine-cancer-link-studies/.
• Iannelli, Vincent. “Can Vaccines Cause Cancer?” VAXOPEDIA, 25 Apr. 2018, https://vaxopedia.org/2018/04/25/can-vaccines-cause-cancer/.
• "Groves, F. D., Gridley, G., Wacholder, S., Shu, X. O., Robison, L. L., Neglia, J. P., & Linet, M. S. (1999). Infant vaccinations and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in the USA. British Journal of Cancer, 81(1), 175–178. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6690668
• Does the COVID Vaccine Cause Sudden Adult Death Syndrome?
  
• Spencer, Saranac Hale. “Posts Baselessly Link Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome to Covid-19 Vaccines.” FactCheck.org, 29 June 2022, https://www.factcheck.org/2022/06/scicheck-posts-baselessly-link-sudden-arrhythmic-death-syndrome-to-covid-19-vaccines/.
• Bermingham, Vahé Nafilyan and Charlotte. “Covid-19 Vaccination and Mortality in Young People during the Coronavirus Pandemic.” COVID-19 Vaccination and Mortality in Young People during the Coronavirus Pandemic - Office for National Statistics, Office for National Statistics, 22 Mar. 2022, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/articles
  /covid19vaccinationandmortalityinyoungpeopleduringthecoronaviruspandemic/2022-03-22.
• Does mRNA Alter DNA?
  
• “Myths and Facts about Covid-19 Vaccines.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html.
• The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. “Can Mrna Vaccines Alter a Person's DNA?” Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 10 Feb. 2021, https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/video/can-mrna-vaccines-alter-a-persons-dna.
• Bernstein, J. A., et al. (2002). "Global analysis of mRNA decay and abundance in Escherichia coli at single-gene resolution using two-color fluorescent DNA microarrays." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99(15): 9697-9702.
• REVIEWER: Rod Cook, PhD, Human Bequest Coordinator and Anatomy Facility Manager Manager, School of (human) Anatomy and Pathology at James Cook University
• Aluminum and Vaccines
  
• The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. “Aluminum.” Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 4 Nov. 2014, https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-ingredients/aluminum.
• “What's in Vaccines? Ingredients and Vaccine Safety.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 14 July 2022, https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/additives.htm. Rod Cook, PhD, Human Bequest Coordinator and Anatomy Facility Manager Manager, School of (human) Anatomy and Pathology at James Cook University
• Did Sanitation Eradicate Diseases?
  
• Iannelli, Vincent. “Did Better Hygiene and Sanitation Get Rid of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases?” VAXOPEDIA, 23 Dec. 2018, https://vaxopedia.org/2018/12/23/did-better-hygiene-and-sanitation-get-rid-of-vaccine-preventable-diseases/.
• Price, Sean. Texas Medical Association, Apr. 2020, https://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=53090.
• “Disease Eradication.” History of Vaccines RSS, https://historyofvaccines.org/vaccines-101/what-do-vaccines-do/disease-elimination-and-eradication/.
• “Vaccines 101.” Misconceptions About Vaccines, https://historyofvaccines.org/vaccines-101/misconceptions-about-vaccines.
• Social Media and the Spread of Misinformation
  
• Racaniello, Vincent. “Vincent Racaniello.” Virology Blog, 3 Mar. 2009, https://www.virology.ws/2009/03/03/offit-on-vaccines-and-autism/.
• “18 Eye-Opening Fake News Statistics for 2022.” Techjury, https://techjury.net/blog/fake-news-statistics/.
• Pengue, Maria. “27 Alarming Fake News Statistics [the 2022 Edition].” Letter.ly, 28 May 2022, https://letter.ly/fake-news-statistics/.
• Does the COVID Vaccine Cause Infertility & Miscarriage?
  
• “One More Step.” Archive.ph, http://archive.ph/9EULk.
• Jaramillo, Catalina. “No Evidence Vaccines Impact Fertility.” FactCheck.org, 16 Aug. 2021, https://www.factcheck.org/2021/02/scicheck-no-evidence-vaccines-impact-fertility/.
• Blenda Yun, M.D. “Covid-19 Vaccines and Pregnancy: 4 Q&A.” Mayo Clinic Health System, Mayo Clinic Health System, 17 Nov. 2021, https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/featured-topic/covid-19-vaccines-and-pregnancy.
• COVID-19 Vaccine and Infertility: Baseless Claims and Unfounded Social Media Panic https://www.fertstert.org/news-do/covid-19-vaccine-and-infertility-baseless-claims-and-unfounded-social-media-panic
• Does the HPV Vaccine Cause Infertility?
  
• “How Cancer and Cancer Treatment Can Affect Fertility in Females.” American Cancer Society, https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects/physical-side-effects/fertility-and-sexual-side-effects/fertility-and-women-with-cancer/how-cancer-treatments-affect-fertility.html.
• “Study: HPV Vaccine Doesn't Hurt Girls' Fertility.” WebMD, WebMD, 24 Aug. 2018, https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/hpv-genital-warts/news/20180824/study-hpv-vaccine-doesnt-hurt-girls-fertility.



Additional Resources

• Redbook - The Authority on Pediatric Infectious Diseases from the American Academy of Pediatrics. (Behind paid firewall)

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