Malice by Jennifer Jaynes

Author:Jennifer Jaynes [Jaynes, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781503903913
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2018-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

An hour later, Gail Whitman was on Rachel’s doorstep. The journalist was an attractive woman with chin-length red hair and a kind face and seemed to be somewhere in her thirties.

Rachel invited her into the living room and took her coat. Then she lifted Suzie out of the Pack ’n Play. “This is my daughter, Suzie.”

“Hi, Suzie,” the woman said, smiling at her. Suzie didn’t react.

“She’s been doing this ever since the second shot. Looking so vacant. Like she’s in a world of her own. She behaved this way after the first shot for about a day, but then she stopped and became her usual self again. The doctors say it’s normal. Do you think she looks normal?”

Gail’s eyes were warm. She shook her head. “I’m sorry, but no. It doesn’t look normal at all.”

Rachel nodded and offered to make Gail tea, then set Suzie back in the Pack ’n Play and went to the kitchen to prepare it. She poured water into the kettle and turned on the stove.

“So, like I told you on the phone,” Gail said, pulling a laptop out of her bag and opening it, “I’m trying to get as many parents’ stories out there as possible. There are an alarming number of you guys, especially considering this drug is so new. I want to do my part in making sure you are heard.”

“How many parents have you spoken to?” Rachel asked, carrying a tray with two mismatched teacups and the teapot into the living room. She sat it on the coffee table in front of them and sat down across from Gail.

“You’re number seventeen, and I have two more interviews scheduled for this week.”

“All these kids are having seizures?”

“Some. Not all. Some families are reporting other symptoms.”

“Like what?”

“Migraines, muscle weakness, transverse myelitis, speech impairment . . . all symptoms that could point to brain inflammation.”

Rachel frowned. “So, you’re saying Respira is inflaming their brains?”

“It appears as though it might be. The doctors and researchers who have been willing to talk to me about it think it’s the amount of adjuvant in the drug. It’s very high.”

Gail explained that an adjuvant was a substance that was added to a drug to create an immune response. She said that in Respira’s case, the adjuvant was aluminum phosphate. Each dose of Respira contained a very large amount of it.

“My sister says that any dangerous ingredients are in trace amounts. Amounts that aren’t supposed to hurt children.”

Gail studied her as though trying to figure out the best way to respond. “Let me put it to you this way,” she said. “Say a child who is allergic to bees is stung by one. How much venom does it take for that child to develop an anaphylactic reaction and for his throat to close up? Not much, right?”

Rachel nodded.

“Besides, there are top aluminum scientists who say that there are no safe amounts when we’re talking about injection because when injected straight into the bloodstream, the aluminum bypasses most of the body’s filters and therefore can’t be properly excreted,” Gail said.

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