According to a paper published in the journal Pediatrics this week, more than 90% of physicians reported that in a typical month, at least some parents would ask to delay or spread out vaccines. Presumably, these same physicians wouldn’t let parents’ walk out of their offices refusing to treat a bacterial pneumonia with antibiotics. But every year in the United States, children die of preventable forms of meningitis and pneumonia because their parents chose not to immunize them. And in about 20 years, thousands more will die from cancers caused by human papillomavirus for the same reason.
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