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Idaho Mother Charged With Murder After ER Doctor Diagnosed Twins With Post-Vaccine Reaction
Andrea Shaw Warned the Pediatrician About Family Vaccine History. The Doctor Dismissed Her. Eight Days Later, Dallas and Tyson Were Dead.
An Idaho mother now faces two counts of first-degree murder --- and the emergency room doctor who treated her dying twins documented what she already knew: the children were suffering a post-vaccine reaction.
Andrea Shaw, 23, brought her 18-month-old fraternal twins, Dallas and Tyson, to a routine wellness visit on April 23, 2025. Before nurses administered the shots, Shaw and her mother-in-law warned the pediatrician that the twins' father's family had a history of adverse reactions to the flu vaccine. The pediatrician dismissed the warning and proceeded. The twins received the flu, Hepatitis A, and DTaP vaccines.
Within hours, the toddlers became lethargic. Their lips turned blue. The next morning, Shaw rushed them to the emergency room. The treating physician --- after hearing that the twins had received three vaccines the day before โ diagnosed them with "post-immunization reaction, initial encounter."
The babies went home. They remained sick for days. On the morning of May 1, Shaw found both children unresponsive in their shared bed. Police were called. Investigators immediately focused on the parents.
"They said that it wasn't medical and that they figured asphyxiation, and that I had supposedly had a postpartum overwhelming blackout and done it to my children," Shaw told CHD.TV.
Rather than investigating the vaccine reaction, the Payette Police Department opened an investigation into the mother.
More than a year later, a Payette County Grand Jury indicted Shaw on two counts of first-degree murder. She was arrested June 29, 2026 --- three days after giving birth prematurely to another baby. Her husband is now caring for the newborn while she sits in the Ada County Jail on a $2 million bond.
Shaw's defense attorney, Joe Filicetti, told KTVB the case is medical, not criminal, and that a St. Luke's pediatrician diagnosed the twins with a post-vaccine reaction.
"They were looking at it as a vaccine death, and that's still what I believe it to be," Filicetti said.
That medical record has not been publicly released. It is the central dispute in this case --- and the press has largely ignored it.
Nurse Angela Wulbrecht, a vaccine injury advocate who has supported the Shaw family throughout, told The Defender she was "shocked and heartbroken" by the arrest.
"Over the past year, I have had the privilege of walking alongside Andrea and her family after the unimaginable loss of her twin babies," Wulbrecht said. "I have witnessed a mother's profound grief, unwavering love for her children, and determination to seek answers."
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has previously compensated families whose infants died from vaccine-induced causes. Peer-reviewed literature has documented a plausible association between vaccines and sudden infant death for decades. The medical establishment has suppressed that connection at every turn.
Andrea Shaw warned the doctor. The doctor dismissed her. The ER confirmed the reaction. Now the state wants to put her in prison.
All persons charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
