It’s the interactions and the lack of study on that that worries me, personally. We did a delayed schedule with my first, waiting on Hep B, 2 doses of polio only & skipping rotavirus and chickenpox based on looking at risk/reward. We don’t do flu.

My second son had a horrible rx to the dTAP vaccine with losing milestones and months of watery stool/screaming. Pedi finally concluded it was a vax reaction & suggested we do genetic testing. He has the worst version of the mtfhr gene variant (connection hasn’t really been explored, but there are suggestions that this may have a connection with vaccine reaction, especially when Tylenol is give. In conjunction as advised to do at the time by the pedi ). He won’t be vaxxed moving forward. I will say, though, that I am relatively unconvinced on the safety studies performed as a whole (particularly for the newer vaccines—both duration and saline/placebo vs inert add ins), the aggression and age at which we vaccinate in the states & the fact that the whole schedule isn’t tested.

Unfortunately, Covid has made us wary of vaccinating at all. Against anything. They truly don’t care about safety of our children & this whole era will unfortunately damage vaccine uptake in the future—regardless of the logic behind it (as presented so well in your post). We don’t know measles personally, but we do know the behavior of the CDC and the AAP. I’m not sure of a way out of this.

By the way, thank you from the bottom of my Heart for your work this pandemic. I’m so grateful to you. Hope that doesn’t sound creepy 🤣