Duyen Nguyen Mr. Gaffey 02/02/2012 More parents think it s safer to delay vaccines.

The article talks about a large amount of parents delay to follow the vaccine schedule for their children. Even the parents who follow the schedule believed that delaying vaccines would help to decrease the side effects. However, Dr. Paul Offit, vaccine research claimed that delay in vaccine schedule will do no good in protecting against the vaccine side effect. The survey also shows that those parents who delay their children vaccine schedule do not know how much that will make their offspring and themselves being risky to the whole community for those children do not have the sufficient Antibodies against the infectious disease. Dr. Offit believes that those schedules only helps to protect their children based on tons of experimental trials. The research includes parents that have different vaccine choices, incomes, education and demographic, and have children from 6months to 6 years old. Dr. Amanda Dempsey believed that because of their experiences, parents usually skip flu and chicken pots for their children. However, the study shows that people without these vaccines can lead to staying in the hospital and risk of death. However, the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella are often delayed rather than skipped because those related to autism. The author of the study say that those people saw less people with flu and chickenpot, and at the same time, hear more stories about the adverse vaccine story. The doctor say that the more

vaccine you do, the less likely chanced you will get the disease. Moreover, having 5 shots for a young infant can be really scary to their parents. The clinic now has commonly encounters any parents that refuse the vaccine schedule. The AAP said that the clinic should not alienate the families that refuse the vaccine schedule but better help them get some in. The study shows that the distrust on vaccine will continue. VACCINES AND AUTISM TIMELINE: HOW THE TRUTH UNFOLDED. Dr. Wakerfield started his research on 1998, claiming about the link between MMR vaccines and autism. One year later, the AAP announces that there are no direct links between autism and vaccines. 2 years later, a big research concludes there are no links between autism and vaccines. September 2007, Jenny Mc. Cathy talks about a possibility of a link between vaccines and autism. In 2004, Wakerfield was sued and the Immunization Safety Review Committee announces the evidence shows no sign of vaccines-autism linkage. In 2008, there is a study shows that there are inconsistent relationship between vaccines and autism. In 2009, actress Holly Robinson Peete writes an articles saying that this should not make parents fearful of getting their children vaccinated. Few years later, Wakerfield got ripped off his license and studies have shown no sign of autism and vaccination. Although there are still public debate ( 2010), they found out that Wakerfield s information is incorrect and thus invalid. My response: I think that parents should have a more in-depth understanding in giving their children vaccination. They should understand that the distrust was caused by a falsified study. The reason why the distrust gets bigger is because

public freaks out and at that time (few years ago), there were not sufficient technologies to prove it. However, everything has changed now and it is proven that there is no linkage between autism and vaccination. The parents should know that their children should get an on-time schedule for the vaccination. This will not only help the children from the infectious disease (children are more vulnerable and do not have sufficient antibodies). This will, in fact, help the whole community to be safe from the infectious disease on global scale.