#clobes

Tragedy

Evee Clobes died on March 1, 2019, at the age of only six months. She’d been co-sleeping with her mother, Catelin “Catie” Clobes, who called 911 when she awoke the next morning and sobbed, “This can’t be real... This is because she was sleeping with me.” Examination showed that “Areas of her nose, chest, arms and legs were discolored and pooled with blood, indicating Evee had been face-down for some time.” The official autopsy determined that Evee had suffocated (“positional asphyxia”).

Catie took to social media to express her grief. She was immediately bombarded with sympathetic anti-vaxxers with no medical training, who assured Catie that it wasn’t really her fault, and that Evee had really died because of the vaccinations she’d received a couple of days earlier, not because she’d suffocated while co-sleeping with Catie. Understandably, this was a message Catie was very willing to hear.

“Within a week of her daughter’s death, Clobes had joined Stop Mandatory Vaccination’s 169,000-member closed Facebook group, filed a report with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, the federal government’s vaccine safety surveillance program, and retained a lawyer.”

Conspiracies?

Catie has now become a noted anti-vaccine crusader. She rejects the autopsy results: “I safely co-slept with my daughter, that has nothing to do with her death.” Instead, she alleges a massive conspiracy and cover-up:

“Certain people don’t like their work being legally brought into question and the truth being revealed! ... A huge battle has presented itself with yet another entity regarding this case (pretty obvious who). Details can’t be revealed yet but will be very soon. It’s a constant fight right now, something new everyday. I don’t intend to let anyone who may tamper, contaminate, misdocument, or purposely sabotage our search for justice because of their beliefs or ego, get away with it. The cover-up and corruption is so real and it has to be exposed and end. Please consider helping out by donating to my legal fight!”

Catie insists she’s not doing any of this for political purposes: “I’m not out on this big ‘anti-vaxx’ wagon, to deceive people. I’m just telling my truth.”

Proof?

On the advice of her lawyer, Catie hired Dr. Douglas Miller, a clinical neuropathologist, to perform a private autopsy for her daughter’s case. In July, Miller told Catie that “his investigation found no evidence that vaccines had contributed to Evee’s death,” and declined to testify on her behalf. Catie rejected Miller’s findings, and instead told the Internet that his report contained “proof” that vaccines caused Evee’s death. Miller’s response: “I did not tell Ms. Clobes of any such finding, and I did not provide her or her attorney with any report which alleged any such finding.”