Post falsely claims Japan eliminated SIDS by delaying vaccination

An anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist with a large following falsely claims that most SIDS cases occur within 10 days of vaccination. The post also repeats the debunked myth that SIDS “disappeared” in Japan after the country delayed the vaccination schedule by two years.

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