President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots.
This one is interesting because spacing out the vaccines will reduce the fraction of children who actually go through with getting all their vaccinations and therefore have a net negative effect on public health, but at the same time I personally wouldn’t agree to get more than one vaccine in the same day. I recall getting rather sick after getting multiple vaccines at the same time when I was a child. (It wasn’t life-threatening, but it was quite unpleasant for several days.) And even now, the last time I got a covid booster I was in bed for two days afterwards. I wouldn’t want to potentially compound that reaction. A relative of mine recently insisted on spacing out all her child’s vaccines and that’s what I would do if I had the time and money for the additional visits to the doctor.
Wow, you had common side effects of getting vaccines!
Some vaccines are definitely harder than others on the body, but experiencing side effects, even ones that can take you out for a week (looking at you tetanus booster…), is normal. Some of those side effects are the body responding to the actual jab, which you’d now increase with this change since you’re increasing the number of individual shots.
Not all vaccines work the same way and the COVID ones were different even from those we know. I don’t think each one has the potential to make you sick after injection.
This one is interesting because spacing out the vaccines will reduce the fraction of children who actually go through with getting all their vaccinations and therefore have a net negative effect on public health, but at the same time I personally wouldn’t agree to get more than one vaccine in the same day. I recall getting rather sick after getting multiple vaccines at the same time when I was a child. (It wasn’t life-threatening, but it was quite unpleasant for several days.) And even now, the last time I got a covid booster I was in bed for two days afterwards. I wouldn’t want to potentially compound that reaction. A relative of mine recently insisted on spacing out all her child’s vaccines and that’s what I would do if I had the time and money for the additional visits to the doctor.
Wow, you had common side effects of getting vaccines!
Some vaccines are definitely harder than others on the body, but experiencing side effects, even ones that can take you out for a week (looking at you tetanus booster…), is normal. Some of those side effects are the body responding to the actual jab, which you’d now increase with this change since you’re increasing the number of individual shots.
Not all vaccines work the same way and the COVID ones were different even from those we know. I don’t think each one has the potential to make you sick after injection.