1994 vs 2024 childhood immunization schedule
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I hate when people lie with data. This is a lie.
While it is true that new vaccines have been developed, their roles haven't. For example, it lists in the 1994 column: tetanus. Then in the 2023 column it lists DTaP, Tdap, Td, etc. The T is the same tetanus vaccine. The D is diphtheria. The P is pertussis (whooping cough). They're not really 3 different vaccines. The DTaP is the childhood series. The Tdap is a one-time adult booster that is primarily used to give coverage for pertussis, again, once-per-lifetime. The Td is the standard tetanus booster you get every 10 years. She presents it like they're separate, but they aren't really. In 1994, you still had to get a starter series and a booster every 10 years. She pulls out the 5- and 6- drug combination products as separate as well. They're not separate.
The flu shot is listed multiple times as well. They show the IIV4 (4 strain standard flu vax) and the LAIV4 (the live version you get via nasal spray) separately, but they're the same vaccines just in a different dosage form: nasal spray vs intramuscular injection. There's also the IIV3 (3-strain inactivated), ccIIV4 (the egg-free, cell-culture derived version), and the rIIV4 (egg-free recombinant version). They're all interchangeable for the same one annual dose.
I could go through the entire list, she does this with disease after disease. If you look at it, it's vaccination against a bit over a dozen diseases: COVID, flu, tetanus, diptheria, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (chickenpox), shingles, HPP, pneumococcal pneumonia, hepatitis A and B, bacterial meningitis, and H. influenzae (a bacteria that causes pneumonia). There are more you can get in specialized circumstances, such as if you travel (rotavirus, yellow fever, etc) or work with animals (ie rabies).
Yes, there are more than in 1994. Yes, there are more options on the market for each. When capitalism works and we get more and better products, that's a good thing. Most of these are "third world disease" because of widespread vaccination in the West, again, a good thing!
COVID's the only one with really convincing proof that it's dangerous more than the good it does.
I just checked the CDC website and here is the list.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html
The repeat is because birth to 18 months one or 2 doses and then 18 months to 18 year old another dose.
I personally would not take the flu vaccines any more because it gave me the flu. the year I took it.
From a lot of the people here, you can see they have experiences with the vaccines (other vaccines) causing trouble in their children. So I would not say the only unsafe ones are Covid.