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Children ages 2-5 who received the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine faced an increased risk of febrile seizures immediately following vaccination, according to a new study led by researchers at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The preprint study found children who received the Moderna shot were 2.5 times more likely to have a febrile seizure within a day of being vaccinated than they were to have one between eight and 63 days following vaccination.
The incidence rate ratio was “significantly elevated,” the researchers wrote, but the “absolute risk” — the risk of having a seizure following vaccination, was low within the first day following vaccination.
FDA researchers also found a higher risk of febrile seizures among children ages 2-4 on the first day following the Pfizer vaccine than in the 8-63 days following vaccination. However, that increased risk was not statistically significant, the researchers reported.
“Based on the current body of scientific evidence, the safety profile of the monovalent mRNA vaccines remains favorable for use in young children,” the researchers concluded.
Dr. Michelle Perro, a pediatrician and co-author of “What’s Making our Children Sick?” told The Defender that the way the authors mixed different measures of risk in their reporting obfuscated the findings.
“This paper buried itself in statistical gymnastics and made it difficult to assess their true findings,” despite their claim that the safety profile remains favorable, Perro said.
“Based on their own data, I would advise that this vaccination is risky due to the probability of the occurrence of non-febrile seizures in a small population of vaccinated children, along with the fact that we don’t know what other future effects might be,” Perro said.
The FDA’s Richard A. Forshee, Ph.D., led the team of researchers who came largely from commercial health claim database companies — Carelon Research, CVS Health and Optum — that contributed data to the analysis…
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