Dallas Express and their Covid Vaccine reporting. Antivaxxer sentiments might keep HIV vaccines out of Texas.
Let's look at the numbers. Reporting that might mislead endangers people, but probably just Dallas Express readers and their church's members. So a silver lining.
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Dallas Express reporting on covid vaccination.
The title of the article “Study: Covid-19 Vaccine Gives Toddlers Seizures,” and sounds alarming.
The article is at this link.
https://dallasexpress.com/health/study-covid-19-vaccines-give-toddlers-seizures
It is reporting on this report recently publishe by the Food and Drug Administation (FDA).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.12.24304127v1.full.pdf
Researchers also found that children experienced a 2.5-fold increase in febrile seizures within 24 hours of receiving the Moderna vaccine compared to the same grouping between eight and 63 days after the vaccination. Furthermore, per the study, there were 88 febrile seizures after the Pfizer vaccination, reported The Gateway Pundit.
Sound alarming, and they report what antivaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said about vaccine and liability, quoting him as saying, “They know this is going to kill and injure a huge number of children. But they need to do it, for the liability protection.”
So it sounds fairly alarming doesn’t it? Lets look at the report and the numbers.
What is febrile seizure?
Turns out that it is something can happen to children when they have a fever.
The Mayo Clinic has info. A febrile seizure can occur when a child has a fever higher than 100.4 F. The article explains the following.
Simple febrile seizures don't cause brain damage, intellectual disability or learning disabilities, and they don't mean your child has a more serious underlying disorder.
Usually, a higher than normal body temperature causes febrile seizures. Even a low-grade fever can trigger a febrile seizure.
Post-vaccination seizures
The risk of febrile seizures may increase after some childhood vaccinations. These include the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine and the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. A child can develop a low-grade fever after a vaccination. The fever, not the vaccine, causes the seizure.
Any vaccine which might result in a fever might cause a febrile seizure. It isn’t specific to covid vaccines.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/febrile-seizure/symptoms-causes/syc-20372522
Mount Sinai has info on febrile seizures.
https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/diseases-conditions/febrile-seizures
How often do these febrile seizures occur?
Per the National Institute of Health.
Febrile seizures are also sometimes called febrile convulsions. They are relatively common and, in most cases, aren’t serious.
Around one in 20 children will have at least one febrile seizure at some point. They most often occur between the ages of six months and three years.
Basically when children get a fever because they are sick this is a risk that an unpleasant seizure can happen.
https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/brain-nerves-and-spinal-cord/febrile-seizures
Since vaccines can cause a fever, there is this risk with vaccinating young children. This is true of all vaccines that have the possibility of inducing a fever.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/febrile-seizures.html
Lets look at the report. What do the number say.
First thing is that only 1 of the 2 vaccines caused an elevated rate of seizure.
That didn’t get into the Dallas Express article.
Results
The primary meta-analysis found a statistically significant increased incidence of febrile seizure, in the 0-1 days following mRNA-1273 vaccination compared to the control interval (IRR: 2.52, 95% CI: 1.35 to 4.69, risk difference (RD)/100,000 doses = 3.22 (95%CI -0.31 to 6.75)). For the BNT162b2 vaccination, the IRR was elevated but not statistically significant (IRR: 1.41, 95%CI: 0.48 to 4.11, RD/100,000 doses = -0.25 (95%CI -2.75 to 2.24). [Boldface added.]
IRR means incidence rate ratio.
Risk Difference means the increased risk of one group over another.
So for the mRNA-1273 vaccine, the incidence rate ratio was 2.52 times than normal. However, this mean there were 3.22 cases per 100,000. Or an risk factor increase of 0.0000322.
For 100,000 children getting the vaccine there could be expect 3.22 events.
For the BNT162b2 vaccine the incidence rate ratio was 1.41 higher, but the Risk Difference was negative, -0.25.
https://sph.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/112/2015/07/nciph_ERIC3.pdf
So if you wanted absolutely no risk, there was the BNT162b2 vaccine which had no risk. This wasn’t mentioned in the report.
Summary
To summarize things.
Febrile seizures are not uncommon in childhood, about 1 in 20, have one and they are caused by fevers which children get.
Generally not harmful.
One of the two vaccines didn’t have an effect that could be determined.
The rate of increase for one of the vaccines was 3.22 per 100,000, a very low level risk.
Despite conspiracy theories, the safety of vaccines is examined very closely.
So it isn’t the alarming thing that a person might conclude from reading the article.
Rarely something might happen which is not very likely to have consequences other than being unpleasant and alarming.
Choices. Vaccinated vs. unvaccinated.
Let’s say someone has a heart attack in your house. You can decide to call for an ambulance or not call for an ambulence.
Now there is a risk that the ambulence might have a traffic accident and the person being rushed to the hospital injuried or killed. Then there is the risk of not sending the person to the hospital to avoid the risk of a traffic accident.
You would choose to send the person to the hospital immediately.
If the rate of covid infection is for purposes of argument 10%, and the risk of dying was 0.5%, for 100,000 children, there would be 50 deaths. (100,000 X 0.10 X 0.005= 50). There likely would be perhaps an additional 100 with long covid that might last a lifetime. Of course when these children got sick, which they would be more likely to be than unvaccinated children, there would be a chance that they would have more febrile seizures.
Given that a lot of children aren’t vaccinated and they are clustered together in schools and day care, and the general population has a high percentage that isn’t vaccinate, likely the increased rate of getting covid is over 10%.
So it is 3.22 seizures out of 100,000 versus 50 deaths and maybe 100 long covids per 100,000.
The decision is simple.
Consequences
We have no moral responsibility for their actions. None whatsoever. With this article I have published a critque of the article which means I have done something to reduce the potentially harmful effect of this article. The entire LGBT wasn’t responsible for this article before and we have actually done something to counter it. You don’t have to do anything. You shouldn’t do anything to change their minds. You won’t be able even if you tried. They are the enemy hoping to destroy our lives.
Basically the Dallas Express campaigns against the LGBT and the negative effect of this article would be impacting their readers and associates who are also likely the enemies of the LGBT. If they want to conduct biowarfare against themselves, then let them.
In this case, readers won’t just avoid vaccinating their children, but very likely will feel that the covid vaccine is a danger to themselves.
Of course, the children themselves are blameless, and a 100,000 children unvaccinated in the DFW area is likely dozens of deaths.
What we need to do is to make sure we are vaccinated and others who are LGBT or our friends get vaccinated, and which generally are for getting vaccinated, though some might need to be nagged to do so. (You know who you are.)
Some unvaccinated covid infected reader of the Dallas Express can go to their Delulu Church and maybe the whole church get covid. We are meantime healthy.
Getting vaccinated end up, by the refusal of homophobes to get vaccinated, an LGBT superpower.
