Crime 4 year old boy dies of flu after anti vax mom ignores tamiflu prescription and consulted Facebook

When will these low IQ dumbasses learn? She tried a bunch of psuedo science remedies and consulted Facebook anti vax group who suggested more bullshit. She should be jailed.

Facebook groups that routinely traffic in anti-vaccination propaganda have become a resource for people seeking out a wide variety of medical information — including about the ongoing flu season.

Facebook hosts a vast network of groups that trade in false health information. On “Stop Mandatory Vaccination,” one of the largest known health misinformation groups with more than 139,000 members, people have solicited advice for how to deal with the flu. Members of the group have previously spread conspiracies that outbreaks of preventable diseases are “hoaxes” perpetrated by the government, and use the groups to mass-contact parents whose children have died and suggest without evidence that vaccines may be to blame.

One recent post came from the mother of a 4-year-old Colorado boy who died from the flu this week. In it, she consulted group members while noting that she had declined to fill a prescription written by a doctor.

The child had not been diagnosed yet, but he was running a fever and had a seizure, the mother wrote. She added that two of her four children had been diagnosed with the flu and that the doctor had prescribed the antiviral Tamiflu for everyone in the household.

“The doc prescribed tamiflu I did not pick it up,” she wrote.

Tamiflu is the most common antiviral medication prescribed to treat the flu. The drug can ease symptoms and shorten the length of illness, but concerns about side effects are common even outside anti-vaccination echo chambers. The flu has hit children particularly hard this season. Pediatric hospitalization rates are higher than normal, and 68 children have died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NBC News verified the posts by cross-referencing them with a fundraising page set up by the family, along with published news reports quoting the family.
The posts highlight how Facebook groups dedicated to health misinformation such as vaccinations can also be used to solicit and share potentially dangerous medical advice. A study by the American Academy of Family Physicians found that 59 percent of parents said their child had missed the flu shot at least once due to “misinformation or misunderstanding.”

None of the 45 comments on the mother’s Facebook post suggested medical attention. The child was eventually hospitalized and died four days later, according to a GoFundMe started on his behalf by his family.

The mother also wrote that the “natural cures” she was treating all four of her children with — including peppermint oil, Vitamin C and lavender — were not working and asked the group for more advice. The advice that came in the comments included breastmilk, thyme and elderberry, none of which are medically recommended treatments for the flu.

“Perfect, I’ll try that,” the mother responded.

The mother’s recent posts have now been deleted from Stop Mandatory Vaccination, but in group posts going back to 2017 she said she had not vaccinated her children from the flu.

The mother did not respond to a request for comment.

A Facebook spokesperson said in an emailed statement: “This is a tragedy and our thoughts are with his family and loved ones. We don’t want vaccine misinformation on Facebook, which is why we’re working hard to reduce it everywhere on the platform, including in private groups.”

In an emailed statement, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment confirmed that the preschooler had died from the flu and said it did not have records showing whether the child was vaccinated.

“While flu is circulating, it is not too late to get a flu shot, and we recommend everyone ages six months and older who has not had the yearly vaccine get it,” the department said.

Over the last year — amid nationwide concern over vaccine hesitancy and the worst measles outbreak in decades — Facebook has taken steps to limit the volume and reach of groups that spread anti-vaccine content.

Following similar decisions by Pinterest and YouTube, Facebook announced in March that it would limit the reach of anti-vaccination content, no longer serve up anti-vaccination groups and pages in search results and the recommendations bar, and no longer allow users and groups that spread vaccine misinformation to place ads or run fundraisers. In September, Facebook rolled out pop-up warnings for users searching for vaccine-related content.

But Facebook has stopped short of banning the anti-vaccine groups themselves, citing an unease with being the arbiter of truth.

Facebook groups are a hotbed of vaccine misinformation and content, said Kolina Koltai, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, who has studied the social media behavior of the anti-vaccination movement since 2015. Koltai said she’s seen similar posts in which women have reported that their children were sick with measles or cancer and received medically questionable advice.

“These communities have become a haven or resource for parents and for women to connect with others and ask for help,” Koltai said.

One of the biggest purposes of these groups is as a main information exchange hub. And when these groups are recommending potentially medically unsound advice, it can have a severely negative consequence.

“This is what we warn about,” Koltai said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social...-pushed-mom-not-give-her-son-tamiflu-n1131936

 

Charge her with negligent homicide.

 

Out of the 60 dead kids, how many took the meds? One dead kid means nothing

This reads like one of those paid ads for the flu shot. Are you being paid by the pharmecutical companies? Or are you one of the blind fools who does their bidding without being on the payroll?

 

Delete your social media accounts, folks.

 

It is if that one dead child is yours and their death is at your hands because you thought you were smarter than modern medicine.

 

And the 59 other kids who did listen to modern medecine and died anyway?

 

Medical Errors Are No. 3 Cause Of U.S Deaths, Researchers Say
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...ertificates-undercount-toll-of-medical-errors

 

I hear if you say antivaxman 3 times in the mirror the flu shot will appear

 

i bet you are for abortions tho

 

I understand not wanting to give your kids yearly Flu vaccinations. Sometimes they work, sometimes not. Sometimes the vac is for the wrong strain...etc. It's a different scenario than being full blown crazy anti-vax for diseases like polio.

But after reading the article, one of her sons already had the flu and had been in/out of the hospital for weeks trying to treat it.

It just shows how delusional some of these parents are to avoid modern medicine that the mother refused to give her now deceased son the medicine that was prescribed by his doctor... WTF? Why bother even going in the first place if you're going to ignore the doctor's advice?

And now to start a GoFundMe... lol. Why? And who are these people donating to it? And you know that even though her child died, this mother is still unlikely to change her mind...

 

I'm in favor of some kind of testing process to determine who can have children.
There ought to be standards ffs.

 

If only there were people knowledgeable on medicine and treating health issues whom we could go to when the need arises.
Oh well. Gotta go....i accidentally ate some food I'm highly allergic to, gonna go ask Twitter what to do.

 

People are dumb. It is known.

 

What could possibly go wrong

 

Yes she should not have had kids

 

So she was just showing off her anti-vaxness for her FB friends?

 

That's just your body finding its balance , there's no such thing as allergys .

 

What could go right? Parents that plan for and want their children, and since they need to qualify to be parents, the child matters far more than the fifth mistake pregnancy in an impoverished household.

 

Hard to say what that has been previously reported was true or exaggerated. Regardless, she needs to sue for that Nick Sandmann money.