How Many Doses of Vaccines Do Infants Get?
The Real Truth About Vaccines
Can you guess how many doses of vaccines infants in the United States get?
No, I’m not talking about how many doses they get at each visit, but rather how many doses have been given over all.
How Many Doses of Vaccines Have Infants Been Given?
Can you guess?
Well, fortunately you don’t have to guess.
We can just look at the number of vaccines that are distributed in the United States each year, focusing on those that are mainly given to younger children.
So how many vaccines are infants getting?
It’s easy to see that, in just one year, they would have gotten:
8 million doses of the rotavirus vaccines
just over 6 million doses of Hib vaccines
just over 3.7 million doses of Pediarix (DTap-HepB-IPV)
just over 3.1 million doses of Pentacel (DTaP-IPV-Hib)
just over 2.7 million doses of Vaxelis (DTaP-IPV-HepB-Hib)
Well, not just infants.
Twenty-five percent of those 23.5 million doses would have gone to toddlers, but most are for infants as part of the primary series for those vaccines.
Plus you can add 8 to 9 million doses of pneumococcal vaccines too.
And that all makes sense, after all, about 3.6 million babies are born each year and most get vaccinated.
Why is this important to know?
Because over 5.6 BILLION doses of vaccines have been given just since 2006!
And that’s important to keep in mind when you hear anti-vaccine influencers push the latest vaccine injury story.
Know that no matter how much you have been scared by their stories and misinformation, vaccines are safe, with few risks, and are necessary, and the great majority of parents vaccinate their kids.