US Childhood Routine Vaccination Rates Plummeting

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ER Editor: We bumped into this article from the LA Times from March of this year titled 

More parents are delaying their kids’ vaccines, and it’s alarming pediatricians

Of course it’s alarming them because around 50% of their work and income comes from vaccination. It does, however, support Dr. Peter McCullough’s impression below. Do readers of an older generation ever remember having to see a paediatrician at all, and having a truckload of injections? Neither do we. It’s been a make-work medical sector for the most part.

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US Childhood Routine Vaccination Rates Plummeting

CDC/HHS Report: Parents Declining Shots for Children Born in 2020 and 2021

One of the unavoidable collateral effects of the COVID-19 vaccine debacle is a growing general distrust and loss of confidence in routine childhood vaccines. Are there any data suggesting parents are starting to decline or delay routine childhood vaccinations?

Hill et al authored a CDC/HHS report published in MMWR that found a significant reduction in the acceptance of routine across the board. The authors added:

“A recent analysis of trends in parental vaccine hesitancy during 2019–2022 found an increase in hesitancy among parents of children aged 5–11 years after authorization of COVID-19 vaccine, but not among parents of those aged 6 months–4 years (5). Parental vaccine hesitancy might be contributing to the low levels of influenza vaccination coverage, due to a higher degree of hesitancy among parents about influenza vaccine compared with other routine childhood vaccines. Hesitancy about influenza vaccine has been observed to be more highly correlated with hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccine than with other childhood vaccines, indicating that parents might perceive influenza vaccine differently than they do other routine non–COVID-19 childhood vaccines (6).”

Hill HA, Yankey D, Elam-Evans LD, et al. Decline in Vaccination Coverage by Age 24 Months and Vaccination Inequities Among Children Born in 2020 and 2021 — National Immunization Survey-Child, United States, 2021–2023. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2024;73:844–853. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7338a3

In my view, the authors are grossly understating the negative impact COVID-19 vaccination is having on the routine childhood schedule.

I found it odd that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine acceptance for babies 6 months an older was selectively omitted from this report. Multiple sources of data indicate for a healthy children, there are better outcomes and a greater freedom from childhood diseases if they remain unvaccinated and develop a natural pattern of immunity.

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Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

President, McCullough Foundation

www.mcculloughfnd.org

Hill HA, Yankey D, Elam-Evans LD, et al. Decline in Vaccination Coverage by Age 24 Months and Vaccination Inequities Among Children Born in 2020 and 2021 — National Immunization Survey-Child, United States, 2021–2023. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2024;73:844–853. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7338a3

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Featured image source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-11/parents-delaying-kids-vaccines-posing-risk-to-toddlers

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