A new round of anti-vax misinformation could ruin an otherwise calmer RSV season
SalonCOVID-19 hasn't been the only threat to parents and their children since 2020. "For a long time, we thought of RSV as just being of concern to younger infants and causing mild illness, like colds, in older adults but we're finding that it's not quite as severe as something like influenza, but it causes about a quarter of the deaths and hospitalizations compared to influenza," Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases and associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, Davis, told Salon. In mid-May, Children's Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s anti-vax nonprofit, called the progress with the pediatric vaccine a "sad day for babies and mums," emphasizing concerns about pre-term births. FDA's reviewers of Pfizer's international study of nearly 7,400 pregnant women agreed "the safety data seem generally favorable." The FDA panel said none of the deaths were related to the vaccine, with the exception of one, as it was "unable to exclude the possibility" that one of the infant's deaths could be related.
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