Jenny McCarthy does a major CYA...

[pnwmom]

106. So? I wouldn't have expected otherwise. But it doesn't help the families

with rare but serious or fatal reactions to know that the reactions are very rare. In a way, it makes it seem even worse -- for them.

And yes, it does sound genetic, which is exactly what some people were worried about with autism -- that some children, like Hannah Poling (whose autism symptoms the Vaccine Court decided was brought on by multiple vaccines) are genetically susceptible to a reaction -- and that we don't know who those children will be till it's too late to help them.

One of the things we should be doing is researching which, if any, subgroups may be particularly susceptible to damage from a vaccine, rather than insisting that the rare reactions don't matter because they're rare. They matter a hell of a lot to the families involved.