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Tom Childs's avatar

Why don’t they know this? Are they totally ignorant? Or, is it purely a profit driven motivation without regard to the consequences?

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Jen's avatar

I've been screaming this for a month now to anyone who will listen to me. My mother, at the strong recommendation of her primary care doctor & due to having IPF, received the RSV shot on 12/3/24. By the 14th she was hospitalized and originally they thought she needed a pace maker because her blood pressure was literally too high then way too low. We watched her get progressively worse, numbness starting in her extremities, slurred speech and mental confusion. All the standard tests came back clear and on they day they wanted to discharge her, we refused the discharge insisting she was rapidly declining and something was just not right. We finally had a doctor who listened to us, ordered a lumbar puncture and confirmed that it was GBS, most likely from her recent RSV shot. A 5 day immunoglobulin IV treatment was administered. She passed on January 14th. While we know it was not from the GBS, we fully believe that the 3 weeks she spent immobile in the hospital contributed to her already fragile state and her body just couldn't handle things. She was only 78 and fully independent up until the day she went into the hospital.

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