Creating Misinformation About Total Childhood Vaccine Doses

With a focus on misinformation that is now coming from inside the FDA and CDC.

Anti-vaccine influencers have long inflated the total number of vaccine doses children get to make it seem like they get too many immunizations. What’s different now? That misinformation is coming from the FDA and CDC!

Before she left the FDA, Tracy Beth Høeg presented a report to ACIP on Core Childhood Vaccination Schedules: An International Perspective with focus on the US & Denmark. A report that should be retracted and not turned into Donald Trump’s new immunization policy!

The only good news is that this gives up a great opportunity to show you how this kind of misinformation about vaccine doses is created!

Creating Misinformation About Total Childhood Vaccine Doses

So how do they do it?

Well, let’s start with the latest immunization schedule in Denmark.

Of course, to get 6 doses at 3 months, even though it is only 2 shots, you have to count each disease separately, even for combination vaccines like DTaP and MMR that aren’t available as separate vaccines. Which is also what you have to do to inflate the count in the United States to anywhere near 72 doses!

Now how did Tracy Beth Høeg come up with only 11 doses for her report, when children in Denmark clearly get at least 29 doses?

It is a simple trick!

She is simply counting vaccine shots, not vaccine doses, when talking about the Denmark immunization schedule.

Most countries give flu and COVID vaccines to high risk children. They also give Tdap, RSV, flu, and COVID vaccines to pregnant women.

And she never mentions the flu vaccines that many children in Denmark get, even if they aren’t on the routine immunization schedule.

Then, and this is where she really gets tricky, she slips back into talking about vaccine doses when talking about the immunization schedule in the United States!

It is common for anti-vaccine influencers to use inflated vaccine dose counts, except when talking how many vaccines older generations used to get. Then, the vaccine dose count shrinks!

After all, to get to 72 vaccine doses on the United States schedule, you have to:

• count each DTaP vaccine as 3 vaccine doses

• count each MMR vaccine as 3 vaccine doses

• count the Tdap vaccine as 3 vaccine doses

• count any vaccines given in pregnancy as vaccine doses

Which again, is not what she does when talking about the number of vaccine doses on the immunization schedule in Denmark.

How could Tracy Beth Høeg be so far off on these vaccine dose counts? Also know that if using the latest combination vaccines and the nasal spray flu vaccine, your child can get as few as 27 individual shots and still be completely vaccinated and protected! So much for the idea of getting 72 vaccine doses!

Or the vaccine dose counts kids get in the UK, Germany, or Japan!

Counts that should be higher, because most countries give pregnancy vaccines and flu and COVID vaccines to high risk children.

What else?

Why are the rates of autism so high in Denmark if they give so many fewer vaccine doses than most other countries?!?

Tracy Beth Høeg doesn’t mention in her report that Denmark, even though they give fewer vaccines and vaccine doses, has higher rates of autism than many other countries that give more vaccines!

Denmark is able to maintain low rates of hepatitis B infections without universal vaccination. Plus, they have universal health care, which helps them better catch anyone who is positive and treat them.

Lastly, when Tracy Beth Høeg compares the incidence of hepatitis B between the United States and Denmark, even though they look similar, it is important to note that this is with universal hepatitis B vaccination in the US. Denmark doesn’t need such a program because they have lower hepatitis B rates!

Bottom Line - Almost everything about the vaccine schedule report from Tracy Beth Høeg, a sports medicine doctor, is pure propaganda. It should be retracted and should not be used to guide Donald Trump’s immunization policy for our kids!

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