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New Study Sparks Concerns About COVID-19 Vaccines and Immune Responses in Children

ByAlki David

Sep 10, 2023

Recent research has given rise to concerns within the medical community, leading some experts to ponder the implications of what they refer to colloquially as Vaccine-acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (VAIDS). While this term isn’t officially recognized as a medical condition, it has emerged in discussions surrounding the potential effects of COVID-19 vaccinations on the immune system.

Although the study in question does not employ the term VAIDS, it highlights a noteworthy observation. Researchers have identified “a general decrease in cytokine and chemokine responses” to various pathogens, including bacteria, fungi, and non-COVID viruses, in children after receiving COVID-19 vaccinations. The implications of this decrease in immune response are far-reaching.

The authors of the study, published in Frontiers in Immunology, emphasized the significance of their findings, stating, “Our findings suggest SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination could alter the immune response to other pathogens, which cause both vaccine-preventable and non-vaccine-preventable diseases.” This revelation is particularly concerning for children, who are exposed to a multitude of microbes in daycare, school, and social settings, often encountering these microbes for the first time and receiving multiple vaccines as part of their routine childhood vaccination schedules.

To arrive at these conclusions, researchers from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, conducted blood sampling from 29 children both before and after receiving two doses of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. Post-vaccination blood samples exhibited lower cytokine responses to non-COVID pathogens compared to pre-vaccination samples. This diminished immune response was especially pronounced in the case of non-COVID viruses. Six months after vaccination, some children still displayed reduced responses to hepatitis B virus proteins and viral infection-mimicking proteins. However, cytokine responses had increased for bacterial exposures.

The study’s findings have raised concerns among experts. Professor Retsef Levi, specializing in risk management and health systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), shared on social media, “This study adds to cumulative evidence suggesting adverse immune alteration by COVID-19 vaccination.” Family physician Dr. Syed Haider and immunologist and computational biologist Jessica Rose have both connected these findings to the concept of VAIDS.

The implications of this research warrant thorough consideration and further investigation, as they touch upon the delicate balance between COVID-19 vaccination efforts and the broader landscape of immune responses in children.

By Alki David

Alki David — Publisher, Media Architect, SIN Network Creator - live, direct-to-public communication, media infrastructure, accountability journalism, and independent distribution. Born in Lagos, Nigeria; educated in the United Kingdom and Switzerland; attended the Royal College of Art. Early internet broadcaster — participated in real-time public coverage during the 1997 Mars landing era using experimental online transmission from Beverly Hills. Founder of FilmOn, one of the earliest global internet television networks offering live and on-demand broadcasting outside legacy gatekeepers. Publisher of SHOCKYA — reporting since 2010 on systemic corruption inside the entertainment business and its expansion into law, finance, and regulation. Creator of the SIN Network (ShockYA Integrated Network), a federated media and civic-information infrastructure spanning investigative journalism, live TV, documentary, and court-record reporting. Lived and worked for over 40 years inside global media hubs including Malibu, Beverly Hills, London, Hong Kong and Gstaad. Early encounter with Julian Assange during the first Hologram USA operations proved a formative turning point — exposing the realities of lawfare, information suppression, and concentrated media power. Principal complainant and driving force behind what court filings describe as the largest consolidated media–legal accountability action on record, now before the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. Relocated to Antigua & Barbuda and entered sustained legal, civic, and informational confrontation over media power, safeguarding, and accountability at Commonwealth scale.