I reported a couple of Covid posts back about my infant girl being affected by the touch of a recently vaccinated neighbor, leading to a rash where she was touched and, possibly, a nervous system condition. Just the quick update: There have not been any recurrences of the symptoms since the last time, and several tests in the hospital are inconclusive. The symptoms we described only match up with a (literally) one-in-a-million neurological disorder called "Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood". We have *not* received a diagnosis of such-- it's simply a case of watch, wait, and see. On the recommendation of a friend, we are taking my daughter to start a preventive course of treatment with a local osteopath and chiropractor.

Although I have quite a high level of certainty that the initial rash came from the physical touch of our neighbor, I am far less sure that whatever neurological condition my daughter might potentially have was caused by that exposure. Of course I don't rule it out, and if there is a sudden increase in the number of children who develop previously rare neurological disorders in the coming years, that will be telling. But it appears that when my daughter's condition occurs, it occurs because her system is under unusual stress in some way. It seems to me that being exposed to mRNA shedding by that initial physical touch may have been sufficient stress to trigger it, but that doesn't (necessarily) mean that it was the cause of the condition.

One more potentially important data point that suggests that it may just be coincidental timing is that there were a couple of times just after childbirth that her eyes drifted to one side. Apparently this is not unusual in newborns, but it is at least suggestive that my daughter may have already started out with some kind of neurological imbalance.

As I said, I'm not ruling out the mRNA exposure as a causal factor. I just don't want to jump to conclusions either.