Education and Vaccine Uptake

[pnwmom]

2. Or maybe the more educated parents realize that those vaccine schedules are based on

the convenience of the doctors and parents rather than on the best outcome for the babies. The standard schedule clumps a bunch of vaccines together, so that the parent has to make the fewest appointments possible, even though this means that if there is a serious reaction, it won't be clear which vaccine caused the problem.

And maybe the more educated parents have access to more up-to- date information, as I did when I took my child to the health department for his killed-virus polio vaccination, because my own doctor's office only offered the live vaccine. By the time my next son was born, the killed virus vaccine had become the standard and I could get it from the pediatrician.