Have a 2 yr old and a 5 month old. Wife and I are torn on whether or not to proceed with their vaccinations, considering all I’ve seen and how little trust we have in anything pharma related. I have nowhere else to post this and I have more faith in this community for information than anywhere else. Anyone else struggling with this decision or have info please comment! We have a great pede-iatrician that we trust and is very understanding of our concern.
No chance our kids or ourselves are taking the clot shot, more referring to the ridiculous amount of “normal” childhood vaccinations.
PLEASE HELP!
TDaP, DTaP and MMR are actually 3 vaccines in one shot, so those count as 3 doses each time they are administered. DTaP recommended 5 doses. MMR recommended 2 times. HPV recommended 3 times. Influenza recommended yearly so 18 doses. Hib x 3, HepB x 3, PCV13 x 3, Rotavirus x 2, HepA x 2, IPV x 4. TDap x 1 dose, but this one also trivalent so it counts as 3.
This count is somewhere in the high 50s or low 60s and I'm not sure I'm even reading it quite right.
Notice that they recommend TDaP 5 times and then follow up with a DTaP about 12 years of age. These vaccines are basically the same thing against the same diseases. I believe these are given so many times because the pertussis component of that shot is a garbage, non-sterilizing product so they think they have to keep giving it. We're probably giving kids way more of the Tetanus and Diphtheria shots than they need, but nobody makes these vaccines monovalent anymore in the US.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html