So DPT counts as one injection for the 1983 schedule (one needle jab). The content is a multivalent vaccine, like MMR is.
But they count an MMR shot at 12 months in the current schedule as “three” vaccine injections, implying it is 3 separate needle jabs.…not so!
(And I haven’t even started to talk about the six in one injection of diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, hepatitis B, and Hib. Is that one injection, or six?….)
By any account (or at least the account of someone who can use their fingers to count, so any average 3 year old) the 1986 schedule amounts to nine “injections”.
Not to mention the fact that all of these vaccines have been improved to now be both MORE effective while using LESS antigens. It's incredibly silly, considering the millions of antigens our bodies are exposed to on a daily basis.
This is really shamefully misleading, not to mention right after American children died of measles. The most helpful part of your fact check here I do think relates to the vaccine schedules of other countries- if the anti-vax thesis is that this is all an insidious plot by American pharmaceutical companies, pointing out that other countries (with different healthcare systems, no less!) have very similar vaccine schedules is really helpful to break through the fear.
They need to define what an “injection” is.
So DPT counts as one injection for the 1983 schedule (one needle jab). The content is a multivalent vaccine, like MMR is.
But they count an MMR shot at 12 months in the current schedule as “three” vaccine injections, implying it is 3 separate needle jabs.…not so!
(And I haven’t even started to talk about the six in one injection of diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, hepatitis B, and Hib. Is that one injection, or six?….)
By any account (or at least the account of someone who can use their fingers to count, so any average 3 year old) the 1986 schedule amounts to nine “injections”.
Not to mention the fact that all of these vaccines have been improved to now be both MORE effective while using LESS antigens. It's incredibly silly, considering the millions of antigens our bodies are exposed to on a daily basis.
This is really shamefully misleading, not to mention right after American children died of measles. The most helpful part of your fact check here I do think relates to the vaccine schedules of other countries- if the anti-vax thesis is that this is all an insidious plot by American pharmaceutical companies, pointing out that other countries (with different healthcare systems, no less!) have very similar vaccine schedules is really helpful to break through the fear.