{"id":17386,"date":"2026-08-20T13:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&#038;p=17386"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:10:02","slug":"is-the-mmr-vaccine-lethal-to-children","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/is-the-mmr-vaccine-lethal-to-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the MMR vaccine lethal to children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row source=&#8221;&#8221; text=&#8221;Clinical Trials&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Abril%20Fatface%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1708910874436{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Claim:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Donald Trump said the combined MMR vaccine could be \u201cquite lethal,\u201d and now anti-vaxxers are out saying that the\u00a0MMR are killing children. One\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NicHulscher\/status\/2086980279718003153\" rel=\"nofollow\">video<\/a>\u00a0from Peter McCullough&#8217;s group claims that\u00a0hundreds of children died after vaccination, often within two weeks, and the vaccines have caused far more deaths than measles.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Facts:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<ul>\n<li>The tweet added words that Dr. Soon-Shiong did not say.<\/li>\n<li>He was discussing viruses and cancer, not vaccines causing cancer.<\/li>\n<li>He has also supported research on COVID\u00a0and cancer vaccines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/records\/18671462\" rel=\"nofollow\">study<\/a>\u00a0is posted on Zenodo, an open research website where researchers can upload their work.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/\">Zenodo<\/a>\u00a0warns that papers posted there may not have been peer reviewed and should be treated as early research, not as proven findings. In other words, the study may still need to be reviewed by other experts before its claims can be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>The study also uses data from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/science\/vaccinesafety\/\">VAERS<\/a>, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Doctors, patients, and family members can report health problems that happen after a vaccine. These reports can help experts spot possible safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>However, a VAERS report does not prove that a vaccine caused a health problem. It only shows that the problem happened sometime after vaccination. Reports may be incomplete, incorrect, caused by something else, or difficult to confirm. Researchers need stronger studies to find out whether a vaccine actually caused an event.<\/p>\n<p>For example,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medalerts.org\/vaersdb\/findfield.php?IDNUMBER=25556\">this VAERS report\u00a0<\/a>describes a child who died five days after vaccination. The report says the doctor and autopsy technician did not believe the vaccine caused the death. However, a study that counts deaths only because they happened after vaccination could still include a case like this as being linked with the MMR vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>For these reasons, readers should be careful when interpreting the study. The website says the paper is not yet established science, and the VAERS data it uses cannot by itself show that vaccines caused the reported health problems.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMR vaccines are not killing children. The Zenodo paper relies on VAERS data that cannot by itself show vaccines caused deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[202,301,429,305,340,191,203,213,400,313,278,218],"class_list":["post-17386","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-cancer","jtf_topic_subjects-covid","jtf_topic_subjects-dr-pat-soon-shiong","jtf_topic_subjects-infants","jtf_topic_subjects-mccullough-foundation","jtf_topic_subjects-measles","jtf_topic_subjects-mmr","jtf_topic_subjects-mumps","jtf_topic_subjects-nicolas-hulscher","jtf_topic_subjects-rubella","jtf_topic_subjects-vaers","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/17386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/17386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17388,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/17386\/revisions\/17388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=17386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}