Vaccination drop in statistics

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I am not an anti vaxxer but if I had small children now I would insist on the vaccines being administered separately. ie not 3 at once.

I thought I had seen a thread on here last year that those parents who paid privately for individual injections were not counted in the statistics for the UK total as being vaccinated.

Is this still correct?

Am I unreasonable to ask you lot if the system for accounting is now Improved
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49831581

I would insist on the vaccines being administered separately.

Why?

Which vaccines do you mean? Not all are even available as singles

Can you do that?

Privately?

Which vaccines? I don’t think mumps for example, is available separately

Ah pseudoscience about overloading their systems OP? You have any idea how many bugs and germs attack a babies immune system everyday?

Anyway, crack on

Or do you mean having the combined injections but not having more than one of them at a time?

Single mumps and rubella vaccines are no longer manufactured either

I’ll vaccinate my child upside down on a rollercoaster on another planet if it meant they’re risk of serious or fatal illness is reduced.

I'll have a seat next to you in that rollercoaster DoubtingMyPatience

I would insist on the vaccines being administered separately. ie not 3 at once.

What’s the point of that?

@Newking Absolutely, there is lots of space on it unfortunately, due to misinformation and scaremongering.

You’ll have to put up with my terrible grammar though! Their!**

@DoubtingMyPatience I absolutely agree with you. The pseudoscience spread on social media nowadays about ‘overloading’ the system with vaccines is pure rubbish and could be very dangerous to future global health.

There is absolutely no evidence that single vaccines are better or safer. If there was evidence that it was better or safer to give the vaccines separately the NHS would give them separately. The combined vaccines are perfectly safe for the vast majority of children. Writing bullshit like your OP undermines people’s confidence in a safe and life saving medicine and is deeply irresponsible.

I’m not an antivaxxer but......

Don’t know why people think splitting them up is so much safer... if anything, reactions to vaccines are generally to the adjuvant (basically the bit that is added to make your immune system react) - if anything you’re just increasing the number of times the child is vaccinated. So much misinformation available now and scaremongering. No, of course vaccines aren’t 100% safe, but the risk of a reaction, and in particular a serious one is tiny in comparison to the consequences of measles/mumps.