Survey: Parents increasingly ask doctors to delay vaccines
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
CHICAGO -- Parents increasingly have pressured doctors to delay vaccines for young children, making their children and others vulnerable to preventable diseases, a study suggests. The findings are in a national survey of 534 pediatricians and family doctors asked about parents wanting to postpone some of the shots recommended for children younger than 2. Nearly all doctors said at least some parents had requested vaccine delays in a typical month, and one in four said those numbers had increased since the previous year.
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