If Other Countries Give Fewer Shots, Why Can't We Ask Why?

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by Tyler Durden

Tuesday, Aug 18, 2026 - 03:00 AM

Authored by Jack Hellner via AmericanThinker.com,

By age 18, a child in the United States can receive roughly 30 to 75 total vaccine doses if they follow standard schedules and get annual flu shots. Fewer shots are needed because vaccines are combined.

By comparison, in Germany, the Robert Koch Institute (via the Standing Committee on Vaccination, STIKO) recommends routine protection against about 12 to 15 infectious diseases for children. Because Germany relies heavily on multi-component combination shots (like the 6-in-1 hexavalent vaccine), children receive roughly 11 to 14 actual physical injections.

Elsewhere in Europe, in England, children receive around 20 to 25 individual vaccine doses from birth to age 14, delivered via roughly 14 to 16 actual needle injections.

Similarly, under Japan’s routine immunization program, children receive around 20 to 22 individual injection shots.

And in Spain, children receive around 15 to 18 individual injection shots from birth through adolescence under the official public health system.

These comparisons raise some obvious questions.

Doesn’t it look like children in the United States get more shots today, and there would be a valid reason to recommend fewer?

Do children in countries with fewer shots have worse health results?

Do other countries ignore science when they have fewer shots?

Wouldn’t it be nice if the media were curious instead of just repeating talking points to trash President Donald Trump?

And vaccines aren’t the only area of health care where such questions should be asked.

Obamacare is one of the worst and most costly bills ever passed, yet the media and other Democrats still falsely claim that it makes health care more affordable.

If Democrats just wanted to cover the poor and those at high risk, they would have just expanded Medicaid and high-risk pools instead of destroying the whole system.

They never wanted affordable care. They wanted government-controlled care.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/if-other-countries-give-fewer-shots-why-cant-we-ask-why

Nearly half of measles cases in the US are among MMR-vaccinated people

By Rhoda Wilson on August 17, 2026 •

44% of diagnosed measles cases are among people who received the MMR vaccine. School mandates rely on the argument that the immunocompromised will be exposed unilaterally by the unvaccinated; this is clearly not the case, James Lyons-Weiler writes.

Additionally, vaccinated people can transmit the measles virus to others – and the vaccine-induced infection is not the same as the wild-type virus.

What’s Going On with the MMR Vaccine? 44% of Measles Cases in Colorado Transmission Chain Were Vaccinated People

By James Lyons-Weiler, originally published on 5 February 2026 and subsequently updated

Table of Contents

Introduction

Vaccinated People Are Being Diagnosed and Counted as Clinical Measles Cases

Vaccination Status and Outcomes in Colorado Outbreak

Enhanced Detection Through Urine Sampling

Contact Tracing and Resource Constraints

Cross-Jurisdictional Spread

CDC’s Policy Conclusion: Maintain Vaccination

The Efficacy Lifecycle of the MMR Vaccine: Has Selection Caught Up?

About the Author

Introduction

In a recent opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) Principal Deputy Director Ralph Abraham argued that “framing measles as an American policy failure is inaccurate and misleading,” asserting that resources including vaccines and therapeutics have been surged nationwide and that the current measles situation reflects broader global trends rather than a uniquely domestic policy breakdown.

Citing a recent Measles, Mortality Weekly Report (“MMWR”) article, Abraham hinted that something else was failing. He fell short of mentioning waning immunity or vaccine failure.

more:

https://expose-news.com/2026/08/17/nearly-half-of-measles-cases-are-among-vaccinated/

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