Day 706: The Rubber Stamp, the Xerox Machine, and Babies

The CDC gets out the rubber stamp to approve boosters for twelve-year-olds at 5 months, although such young children are still at no statistical risk for non-mild COVID. Surprisingly, someone on the advisory committee voted against; look for a replacement committee member soon.

On the bright side, the FDA lost its baseless case to ignore a legitimate FOIA request for Pfizer's vaccine license application, and has been ordered to release 55,000 pages a month rather than their requested 500. This reduces the amount of time to Xerox the whole thing from 75 years to about 9 months.

The ongoing unmitigated disaster that is COVID vaccination has dredged up more than just an old AIDS controversy and ineffective flu vaccines. Yet another thing that the CDC denies is the role of childhood immunizations in SIDS and other sudden "unexplained" infant deaths. In fact, applying either math or history to the situation makes it apparent that SIDS is largely due to the vaccination schedule rather than historical staples like blankets, pillows, and stuffed animals, or sleeping position. This has been known for quite some time, and continues to be borne out in VAERS and elsewhere:

Prior to the introduction of organized vaccination programs, "crib death" was so rare that it was not mentioned in infant mortality statistics. In the United States, national immunization campaigns were expanded in the 1960s when several new vaccines were introduced and promoted. For the first time in history, most U.S. infants were required to receive several doses of DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus), polio, and measles vaccines. (The measles vaccine was administered at 9 months of age from 1963 to 1965). Mumps and rubella vaccines were also introduced in the 1960s. By 1969, an alarming epidemic of sudden unexplained infant deaths impelled researchers to create a new medical term—sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). By 1972, SIDS had become the leading cause of post-neonatal mortality (infant deaths occurring between 28 days and 1 year of life) in the United States. In 1973, the National Center for Health Statistics, operated by the CDC, created a new cause-of-death category to document deaths due to SIDS.

You may have heard that the "Back to Sleep" campaign reduced SIDS, but what it actually did was coincide, for reasons that are not entirely clear, with changes in the coding of infant deaths:

From 1999 through 2001, the number of U.S. deaths attributed to "suffocation in bed" and "unknown causes" increased significantly. Although the post-neonatal SIDS rate continued to decline, there was no significant change in the total post-neonatal mortality rate. According to Malloy and MacDorman, "If death-certifier preference has shifted such that previously classified SIDS deaths are now classified as 'suffocation,' the inclusion of these suffocation deaths and unknown or unspecified deaths with SIDS deaths then accounts for about 90 percent of the decline in the SIDS rate observed between 1999 and 2001 and results in a non-significant decline in SIDS."

The trend toward reclassifying sudden infant deaths under alternate ICD codes is an ongoing concern. From 1999 through 2015, the U.S. SIDS rate declined 35.8% while infant deaths due to accidental suffocation increased 183.8%. According to Lambert et al., "There is evidence of a continuing diagnostic shift between SUID subtypes," but "there has been little change in overall SUID rates since 1999."

This makes it even more disturbing that the FDA, killer of babies, has forced Owlet to turn their SIDS-interrupting Owlet Smart Sock baby pulse-ox into a glorified sleep monitor.

Massachusetts cases were up two and a quarter percent today.