American Children Receive 24 Vaccines Before The Age Of 2

American Children Receive 24 Vaccines Before The Age Of 2.
The rod vaccine listing for young children in the United States is tried and true and effective, a new review says. The report, issued Wednesday by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) at the entreaty of the US Department of Health and Human Services, is the first to look at the unrestricted vaccine schedule as opposed to just individual vaccines. The current vaccine schedule entails 24 vaccines given before the epoch of 2, averaging one to five shots during a single doctor visit.

So "The commission found no evidence that the childhood immunization schedule is not safe," said Ada Sue Hinshaw, armchair of the committee that produced the report and dean of the Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. "The evince repeatedly points to the healthfulness benefits of the schedule, including preventing children and their communities from life-threatening diseases," added Hinshaw, who spoke at a Wednesday communication conference to introduce the report.

The series of vaccines are designed to safeguard against a range of diseases, including measles, mumps, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, meningitis and hepatitis. However, some expressed reservations about the report.

And "The IOM Committee has done a high-mindedness caper outlining core parental concerns about the safety of the US child vaccine dedicate and identifying the large knowledge gaps that cause parents to continue to ask doctors questions they can't answer," said Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a nonprofit categorizing "advocating for the introduction of vaccine safety and briefed consent protections in the public health system". But, she added, "The most shocking part of this report is that the committee could only identify fewer than 40 studies published in the past 10 years that addressed the accepted 0-6-year-old child vaccine schedule.