Are birth shots safe for newborns?
Birth doses of Vitamin K and Hepatitis B are safe. Vitamin K prevents hemorrhagic disease; Hep B vaccination prevents chronic infection and liver cancer.
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Birth doses of Vitamin K and Hepatitis B are safe. Vitamin K prevents hemorrhagic disease; Hep B vaccination prevents chronic infection and liver cancer.
Thimerosal in flu vaccines is safe and does not cause brain damage, ADHD, tics, or autism; claims of a CDC cover-up have been debunked.
Feeling sick after flu and COVID vaccines is due to your immune system’s reaction, not poison, as it creates inflammation to build protection.
The Simpsonwood conference was a routine CDC safety discussion, not a secret cover-up. Thimerosal and aluminum adjuvants are rigorously tested.
A Project Veritas video falsely claims that COVID vaccines are made from aborted fetal cells, but only the viral vector vaccine uses cell lines from the 60s, while mRNA vaccines do not.
A former pharmaceutical VP falsely claims COVID mRNA vaccines cause blood clots, but over 600 million safe doses in the US show no increased risk.
A study found a possible link between aluminum in vaccines and childhood asthma, but no causal relationship has been established.
Misinformation falsely linking vaccines to autism persists, despite extensive research showing no connection, particularly with thimerosal, which was removed from childhood vaccines in 2001.
A tweet falsely claims a document reveals harmful vaccine ingredients, but it misunderstands the vaccine manufacturing process.
The claim that the Hepatitis B vaccine causes autism is unsupported by evidence and based on debunked misinformation.