{"id":13422,"date":"2025-10-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=13422"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:54:27","slug":"researchers-found-unvaccinated-children-healthier-than-vaccinated-didnt-publish-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=13422","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Found Unvaccinated Children Healthier Than Vaccinated, Didn’t Publish Findings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers from a large health care system in Michigan found that vaccinated children were more likely to develop a chronic health condition, but never published the findings,<\/strong> according to a copy of the study obtained by The Epoch Times.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henry Ford Health System, whose employees carried out the study, said it was deficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Marcus Zervos, an infectious disease specialist at the Henry Ford Health, and colleagues studied 18,468 children born between 2000 and 2016 who were enrolled in the health system\u2019s insurance plan,<\/strong> drawing data from medical, clinical, and payer records and supplementing with information from Michigan\u2019s immunization registry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 10 years, 57 percent of the vaccinated children had a chronic health condition such as asthma, compared to just 17 percent of the unvaccinated children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis study found that exposure to vaccination was independently associated with an overall 2.5-fold increase in the likelihood of developing a chronic health condition<\/strong>, when compared to children unexposed to vaccination,\u201d the authors wrote<\/a>. \u201cThis association was primarily driven by asthma, atopic disease, eczema, autoimmune disease and neurodevelopmental disorders. This suggests that in certain children, exposure to vaccination may increase the likelihood of developing a chronic health condition, particularly for one of these conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study was first reported by Aaron Siri, managing partner of Siri & Glimstad LLP, this month in his book, Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before receiving a copy of the study, The Epoch Times asked Zervos and his coauthors for it and questioned why it was never published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zervos responded to questions about the study by asking in an email, \u201cCan you tell me what book this appeared in.\u201d When told, he did not respond further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-authors did not return inquiries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for Henry Ford Health acknowledged that researchers there carried out the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis report was not published because it did not meet the rigorous scientific standards we demand as a premier medical research institution<\/strong>,\u201d a spokesperson for Henry Ford Health told The Epoch Times in an email. \u201cData has consistently shown vaccinations are a safe and effective way to protect children against potentially life-altering diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The Only Real Problem\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Siri, who has worked with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., represents a group called the Informed Consent Action Network. He and Del Bigtree, the group\u2019s CEO, say they met with Zervos in 2017 and proposed that he compare the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They initially proposed obtaining data from a federal network called Vaccine Safety Datalink, but Zervos suggested utilizing the health data from Henry Ford Health, Siri wrote in his book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siri requested that the researchers publish the results of the study, regardless of what it showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDr. Zervos looked us right in the eyes and assured us that he was a man of integrity and would publish the results, whatever the finding<\/strong>,\u201d Siri said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siri received a copy of the study in 2020. He and Bigtree say that Zervos and a coauthor told them that superiors at Henry Ford Health did not want it submitted for publication and that they were concerned they could lose their jobs if they submitted it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe only real problem with this study\u2014and why it didn\u2019t get submitted for publication\u2014is that its findings did not fit the belief and the policy that \u2018vaccines are safe,\u2019\u201d Siri said during a Senate hearing<\/a> in Washington on Sept. 9. \u201cHad it found vaccinated children were healthier, it no doubt would have been published immediately. But because it found the opposite, it was shoved in a drawer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous research comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated children has returned mixed results. A German study published in 2011, for instance, found<\/a> that unvaccinated children were more likely to suffer diseases targeted by vaccines. An American study published in 2020 found<\/a> vaccinated children had higher odds of suffering from developmental delays, asthma, and ear infections in their first year of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Jake Scott, an infectious disease doctor at Stanford University\u2019s School of Medicine, told the hearing that he reviewed the study and found it problematic. One issue was how vaccinated children visited doctors during the study period more often than unvaccinated children, according to Scott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen diagnoses require doctor visits, children seeing doctors more often will inevitably have more recorded conditions<\/strong>,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is classic detection bias that inflates risk estimates without reflecting true health differences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even after excluding unvaccinated children whose parents never took them to the doctor following birth, the vaccinated group still had an increased risk of developing a chronic health condition, the researchers stated, according to Zervos and the other researchers. They also analyzed the data at one, three, and five years following birth and found that the vaccinated children were still more likely to develop a chronic health condition. \u201cTherefore, our findings do not appear to be due to differential use of health resources,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers also said that their findings \u201ccannot prove causality and warrant future investigation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hearing was held by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the panel, said during the hearing that the study was \u201chigh-quality\u201d and \u201csuspiciously withheld by the authors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), its ranking member, questioned why it has taken five years following completion for the study to be disclosed to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy hope has always been that the scientists would publish it,\u201d Siri said. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve tried to persuade them many, many times, so it could go through the normal, peer-review process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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