by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:
In 2002, as parents grew increasingly concerned about the cumulative effect of an ever-expanding vaccine schedule, Dr. Paul Offit claimed that “each infant would have the theoretical capacity to respond to about 10,000 vaccines at any one time.” Offit, then a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, made the claim in an article he wrote for the AAP’s journal, Pediatrics.
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A lawsuit filed by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) against the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is renewing controversy over how public health officials responded to parents’ growing concerns over the expanding vaccine schedule in the early 2000s.
The childhood vaccine schedule grew rapidly in the 1980s and ’90s, expanding from 11 doses targeting four diseases in 1983 to 20 doses by 2000 — with more on the horizon.
As the schedule grew, many parents began questioning whether the combined number of injections — given the increasing exposure to vaccine components like adjuvants — could be harmful to infants and young children.
Surveys cited in the lawsuit showed that at the time, 23% of parents questioned the number of shots, while 25% expressed concern that vaccines might weaken the immune system.
The AAP, which promoted the expanding schedule, found itself under pressure to respond to parents’ concerns.
In January 2002, the AAP addressed those concerns in an article it published in its own journal, Pediatrics. Dr. Paul A. Offit, a vaccine inventor and then-member of the AAP’s Committee on Infectious Diseases, wrote the article.
The title of the article was: “Addressing Parents’ Concerns: Do Multiple Vaccines Overwhelm or Weaken the Infant’s Immune System?”
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