Do children receive too many vaccines?

Dr. Simone Gold, who made a name for herself rallying against public health measures during the pandemic, is now asserting that children receive too many vaccines, especially in comparison to past years.

There have been many fantastic rebuttals to the “exploding vaccine schedule” claims over the years. Mainly, we are grateful that we can prevent more diseases now than before.

But even these rebuttals gloss over the fact that the vaccination schedule has grown very, very slowly. One vaccine was dropped from the schedule in the 1970s, two were added in the 1980s, two were added in the 1990s, one was added in the 2000s, and two were added in the 2010s. And, of course, the 2020s brought us COVID and RSV vaccines. Over the decades, age recommendation changes were made, and some vaccines were replaced with newer counterparts.

Overall, the vaccine schedule has expanded by 1-2 vaccines per decade since the 1980s. This slow, methodical, scientific advance of immunization recommendations stands in stark contrast to concerns that vaccines are constantly being capriciously added to the schedule.

Besides, who wants to go back to the days when babies died from Hib epiglottis?