Paediatrician’s Post About Immunisation Goes Viral AGAIN

A paediatrician shared a Facebook plea in 2015 encouraging parents to get their children vaccinated and to follow the vaccination schedule, with no delays. The post went viral in 2015 and it’s going viral again after being shared on Imgur because some parents need to hear the message more than ever.

Not vaccinating your child can have serious consequences to the immunity of the community. But increasingly, there is another threat to the effectiveness of immunisations, and it’s parents not following the vaccine schedule to ensure their child gets the right immunisation, at the right time.

There are some parents that believe delaying a vaccine and not following the schedule is better for kids, but it’s not.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say, “Children do not receive any known benefits from following schedules that delay vaccines.

“Delaying vaccines puts children at known risk of becoming ill with diseases that could have been prevented.”

The original Facebook post that went viral in 2015, was penned by a paediatrician in California, Dr. Mike Ginsberg. The doctor had a strong reaction to the Measles outbreak in 2015 and this prompted his message on Facebook to his patients.

“In my practice you will vaccinate and you will vaccinate on time,” his post begins. “You will not get your own ‘spaced out’ schedule that increases your child’s risk of illness or adverse event. I will not have measles-shedding children sitting in my waiting room.”

The post was shared in response to Dr. Robert Sears promoting alternative vaccine schedules which received high criticism for fueling vaccination sceptics.

Doctors have raised concerns about the ‘alternative vaccine schedules’ which have increased doctor visits and decreased immunity.

“Increasing the number of vaccines, the number of office visits, and the ages at which vaccines are administered will likely decrease immunization rates,”
writes Dr. Paul A. Offit for the AAP. “In addition to the logistic problem of requiring so many office visits, Sears’ recommendation might have another negative consequence; [in 2009] outbreaks of measles showed that several children acquired the disease while waiting in their pediatricians’ offices.”

The immunisation schedules are recommended by experts in the fields of virology, microbiology, statistics, epidemiology, and pathogenesis. Vaccines are a medical breakthrough of modern medicine and their schedules are researched thoroughly.

Yes, everyone has a choice on whether they choose to vaccinate, but this doctor says he won’t up with patients that choose not to vaccinate. Their decision can put his sick patients at risk.

“This pediatrician is not putting up with it. Never have, never will.”