In Sweden you get your child vaccinated to protect your community, not just your child.
More Americans aren't getting the vaccination that provides coverage for measles, mumps and German measles, also known as rubella. In some areas of California, 13 percent of young children haven't been immunized. Compare that with a place like Sweden, where vaccination coverage is estimated to include all but 5 percent of the entire population. That's because Swedes show up for all sorts of optional immunizations in droves, providing the sort of "herd immunity" that Americans can only envy.
Elizabeth Bruenig, a staff writer at The New Republic, says Swedes tend to approach vaccination campaigns very differently than Americans do. "When I think about my flu shot every year, and whether or not I really want to go through getting the needle in the arm, I'm generally thinking about my own health: Do I want to sick this year?" Bruenig says. "In Sweden, it's very common to think of vaccines as something that you do because you're going to be in contact with people who are vulnerable to illness. It's a way of protecting them."
Those vulnerable groups include the elderly, children who are too young to be vaccinated and the immuno-compromised such as people going through chemo-therapy, or those with HIV and AIDS. Others turn out to be at risk because the measles vaccine isn't 100 percent effective for everyone who receives it.
When Swedish parents think about getting their children immunized, they act because "it's something that we do where we all use our bodies sort of as human shields for people whose bodies just don't have the capacity to be vaccinated or to withstand these diseases."
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-29/what-sweden-can-teach-america-about-measles-vaccinations
For Americans a flu shot is usually done to benefit oneself - to avoid getting the flu yourself. For Swedes is as much to protect those who cannot protect themselves - "the elderly, children who are too young to be vaccinated and the immuno-compromised such as people going through chemo-therapy, or those with HIV and AIDS."
I get a flu shot every year but, I have to admit, I am doing it for myself. Kind of being a typical American, I guess. 
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FDR got Americans to temporarily care about the public good but the Right Wing Revolution of the past 40 years, perhaps along with the rise of social liberalism (and thus reactionary racism), has made Americans to care less about other people and only about themselves.
Why would Americans care about fellow other Americans when many fellow other Americans are black or hispanic or some other race than white (thus, the "other"
? Or when many other Americans are "moochers that are taking away their hard earned money through taxes"? Or when so many Americans are basically the victims of other Americans? Or when you have to compete with other Americans to make money because jobs are scarce?
The Right Wing Revolution has basically destroyed the sense of community that America at least partially had before, and thus Americans now only care about themselves and little else.
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Number of Mandatory Vaccines and Under 5 Mortality Rates for Top 30 Countries
CHART SOURCE: @JBHandleyjr
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Vaccine Schedule
ECDC collects information on vaccination schedules in the EU/EEA countries with the help of ECDC national focal points. This tool allows for comparison of shedules between two countries and diseases for all or a selection of countries.
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2014 CDC schedule (does not transfer): http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/child-adolescent.html
CHART SOURCE: http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2013/07/welcome-ernest-hancock-listeners.html
Compiled DEC 2010, published JULY 2013.
Starts at birth. Omits (?)new pregnancy recommendations: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/adults/rec-vac/pregnant.html .
it says "the CDC recommends that children get 69 doses of 16 vaccines," or just an official website from ONE STATE that mandates children get 29 doses of nine vaccines to attend kindergarden? Just show me ONE STATE that mandates 29 doses of nine vaccines to attend kindergarden.
The problem is that your original chart from J. B. Handley tried to correlate 36 "mandatory" vaccines before age five with the highest infant mortality rate. (Your original comment was regarding Sweden vs. USA) In fact, the USA does not mandate anywhere NEAR 36 vaccines, and what Handley has obviously done is add together all the vaccines that are mandated in ANY state (and probably not even universally-- ie- many States mandate nurses get HEP B vaccinations, but not children, obviously), to come up with the number 36. When, in fact, most States mandate two or three children's vaccines at the most (not 36), while Sweden DOES mandate all 11. If Handley cooked up a deceptive chart like that, there's no reason to believe NVIC wouldn't do the same thing.
So, if you're going to make a claim that the CDC recommends 69 doses of 16 vaccines, or that 'most states mandate 29 doses of nine vaccines before kindergarden' you'll have to link to either the CDC, or a State website that claims that. Not a second hand quote from an anti-vaccine advocacy group.
But thanks for the CDC link.
http://www.thinktwice.com/overdose.pdf
(Ignore editorializing: does great job of clarifying "38 individual doses via 10 vaccines by 18 mo" and that "It is permissible for babies to receive a cocktail of up to 13 doses via 9 vaccines at their 12 or 15 month visit."
