A woman holds her daughter after testifying in front of the Seattle City Council, April 9, 2012 (AP).
- The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System record does not show who the baby’s mother is, nor what hospital they were at. The report notes other illnesses the baby experienced before dying.
- The person who entered the report speculated the “spike proteins” passed through breast milk and may have led to the infant dying. But health experts say it’s unlikely that proteins from the COVID-19 vaccine entered the bloodstream of the person who received the injection, and they are far less likely to enter breast tissue or breast milk.
- Studies have shown that individuals who have taken the COVID-19 vaccine pass on antibodies against COVID-19 to their babies when breastfeeding.
VAERS is short for Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, a federal database where anyone can submit a report on a potential vaccine after-effect. The reports are widely accessible but are not verified, leading people who don’t like vaccines to promote unproven connections between vaccines and health events.
“If it kills your baby by being breastfed, what do you think it will do to you in the long run?” an Instagram user wrote of the COVID-19 vaccine in the caption.
The report appears to have been filed by the baby’s mother, and it shows that the baby experienced a number of health issues leading to hospitalization.
It says that a 6-week-old boy in New Mexico became “inexplicably ill with a high fever” after his mother got the Pfizer vaccine on June 4, and was treated with intravenous antibiotics in the hospital for two weeks. The report says that the baby was diagnosed with rhinovirus, a virus that causes the common cold, and was sent home. His mother brought him back a week later and he was diagnosed with an atypical case of Kawasaki disease, which causes fever, skin rashes and inflammation in the arteries of infants and children up to 5 years old. The baby died July 17.
Some of the conditions described can be deadly. The baby was diagnosed with atypical Kawasaki disease and lists symptoms that match the description of the disease. The report also states that the baby was born early at 37 weeks due to maternal apendicitis.
The author of the report, however, questioned if a spike protein from the Pfizer vaccine “could have gone through the breast milk and caused an inflammatory response in my child.”
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