New Study Reveals: MMR and MMRV Vaccines Reported To Be Linked to 2,657% More U.S. Deaths Than Measles Infections Since 1995

Vaccines, VAERS, and the Questions Parents Are Afraid to Ask

Most parents are told the same story: measles is terrifying, the MMR shot is a modern miracle, and serious side effects are “one in a million,” if they exist at all.

Yet buried inside the federal government’s own vaccine safety database is a very different story—one that grieving families, holistic practitioners, and independent researchers have been begging the medical system to see.

When “Routine” Shots Aren’t Routine

In the United States, the MMR and MMRV shots are given almost automatically around a baby’s first birthday, usually between 12 and 15 months of age.

Parents walk into the clinic cradling a chubby-cheeked toddler and walk out assuming they’ve done the safest, most responsible thing they can do. From there, life is supposed to go on as usual—first steps, messy faces, sticky fingers, and squeals of laughter.

However, when researchers with the McCullough Foundation pulled back the curtain on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), they didn’t see a random smattering of rare tragedies.

Instead, they saw something chillingly organized in time and age—a pattern that lines up almost perfectly with that “routine” MMR/MMRV visit. And once you see that pattern, it’s hard to unsee it.

A Cluster of Tiny Coffins

Using the MedAlerts interface to examine VAERS reports through August 29, 2025, the team identified 536 deaths reported after MMR or MMRV shots worldwide, with 299 coming from the United States. These 299 children aren’t numbers on a chart; they’re bedrooms that never needed to be repainted, toys that never got handed down, and birthdays that never came.

Even more troubling, these deaths were not spread evenly across childhood. Almost two-thirds—182 out of 299—happened in children under the age of 2, with 156 of them clustered in that narrow 1.0 to 1.5 year window when the first MMR dose is typically given. Picture a line of tiny candles, nearly all blown out right after that first birthday mark on the calendar.

That’s not all. The timing after the shot was just as tightly packed. Forty percent of these deaths happened within seven days of vaccination, and more than half happened within 14 days. Among the deaths that occurred in the first week, well over two-thirds were in 1.0–1.5-year-olds—the exact age that lines up with the routine first MMR/MMRV jab. In other words, the timing and the age keep pointing to the same disturbing window.​

Not “Just a Coincidence”

Mainstream talking points love the phrase, “Correlation doesn’t equal causation,” and of course, that’s technically true. But when you see age clustering, tight timing, and repeating clinical patterns, at some point the “just a coincidence” explanation starts to sound like an excuse.

Most of these deaths didn’t happen months or years later; they happened right after the shot, often following what looked like acute deterioration. Parents described fever, seizures, and sudden collapse, sometimes ending in a diagnosis that has become a kind of medical shrug: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). In other cases, children were rushed to the emergency room, admitted to the hospital, and still couldn’t be saved.

According to the study, 24% of the deaths were labeled as SIDS or sudden unexplained death, 15% involved fever, 12% seizures, 8% cardiac arrest, 7% respiratory distress, and 3% encephalitis. Nearly a quarter of the cases involved emergency department visits, and about a quarter resulted in hospital admissions. This is a picture of kids crashing hard—not “mild, self-limited side effects.”​

Too Many Needles, Too Little Caution

Another piece of the story jumps out when you look at what else was happening on those clinic days. Nearly three out of four deaths—74.6%—occurred after visits where the child received MMR or MMRV plus one or more additional shots at the same time. Only about a quarter followed the MMR/MMRV alone.​

From a holistic, alternative medicine standpoint, this raises an obvious red flag. The immune system of a one-year-old is still developing, and yet we’re often stacking multiple vaccines into a single appointment, like loading too many bags onto a small, wobbly cart. The body can only process so much at once, especially when you consider other stressors—nutrient deficiencies, environmental toxins, gut dysbiosis, and genetic vulnerabilities that conventional medicine rarely bothers to explore.

If a child’s terrain is already fragile—imbalanced microbiome, low antioxidant reserves, chronic inflammation—then a multi-vaccine visit may be the final straw that tips them into crisis. Yet most parents are sent home with “just give some Tylenol” rather than deeper support for detoxification, inflammation, and nervous system regulation.

A Vaccine Deadlier Than the Disease?

Perhaps the most shocking finding isn’t just the number of deaths, but the comparison. Since 1995, VAERS has recorded 193 U.S. MMR/MMRV-associated death reports with identifiable dates. During that exact same time period, official surveillance records just 7 measles infection–related deaths in the entire United States. That’s a 2,657% higher count of reported vaccine-associated deaths compared to deaths from measles itself.

Let that sink in. For decades, the public has been told that measles is so dangerous that everyone must be injected, yet in the modern era—thanks to sanitation, nutrition, and better overall living conditions—the disease itself has become exceedingly rare as a cause of death in the U.S. At the same time, deaths reported after the vaccine have stacked up far higher in the federal database that was built to flag safety problems.

No honest practitioner—conventional or holistic—should be comfortable with a scenario where the intervention appears to be deadlier, on paper, than the disease it’s supposed to prevent.

The System That Barely Counts the Dead

And that’s assuming VAERS actually captures most serious outcomes—which it doesn’t. VAERS is a passive reporting system; it waits for busy doctors, overwhelmed nurses, or traumatized parents to file paperwork. A federally funded project led by Lazarus and colleagues found that fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are ever reported to federal surveillance systems.

If this underreporting applies even partially to serious events, then those 299 U.S. deaths after MMR/MMRV may represent only a small fraction of the true toll. In other words, we’re likely seeing only the tip of the iceberg poking above the water, while most of the mass remains hidden beneath the surface.

For alternative and integrative practitioners, this underreporting aligns with what they hear in their own clinics: children who regressed, seized, or declined dramatically after shots, without those events ever being formally logged in federal systems. The “gold standard” data, in other words, may already be tarnished before the analysis even begins.

Rethinking Risk, Honoring the Terrain

All of this pulls us toward a different way of thinking about childhood illness and immunity. In natural and integrative medicine, the focus isn’t just on attacking microbes; it’s on strengthening the terrain—supporting the gut, nourishing the nervous system, building robust, resilient immunity through real food, sleep, sunlight, movement, and targeted herbal and nutrient support.

Measles, historically, was often a short-lived childhood illness that came and went in the context of strong nutrition, vitamin A sufficiency, and restful care. By contrast, when we bypass the body’s natural entry points and inject multiple antigens, adjuvants, and other ingredients directly into the system of a still-developing child, we’re forcing the immune orchestra to play a frantic, disorganized song it may not be ready for.

Instead of asking, “How do we vaccinate every child?” a more holistic question might be, “How do we cultivate such strong, vibrant health that severe measles outcomes remain extremely rare—without adding new layers of risk?” That means paying attention to mineral status, vitamin A and D, gut integrity, toxin load, and family history, rather than blindly following a rigid schedule.

The Call for Real Transparency

The authors of the McCullough Foundation study don’t claim that every reported death is definitively caused by the vaccine. What they do say is that the magnitude, clustering, and timing of these deaths form a serious mortality safety signal—one that cannot be dismissed with a wave of the hand.

They call for rigorous, transparent, fully independent research: active surveillance cohort studies that follow children in real time, full autopsies with careful virologic and toxicologic testing, and large, linked datasets that compare outcomes to true background mortality. For families who’ve lost a child, this isn’t an academic debate—it’s a plea for honesty, accountability, and change.

For those of us leaning toward alternative medicine, the implications are clear. We can no longer accept one-size-fits-all vaccine messaging that ignores the body’s complexity and the reality of risk.

Instead, we’re called to slow down, ask hard questions, support the terrain, and honor the right of every parent to weigh these realities for themselves—fully informed, without coercion, and with eyes wide open.

Source: https://www.offthegridnews.com/what-they-dont-want-you-to-know/new-study-reveals-mmr-and-mmrv-vaccines-reported-to-be-linked-to-2657-more-u-s-deaths-than-measles-infections-since-1995/