Why do some folks think that kids get up to 200 doses of vaccines these days?
The usual suspects…
How Many Vaccine Doses Do Kids Really Get?
Anti-vaccine influencers try to scare parents by inflating the shot count to make you think kids need many more vaccines and vaccine doses than they would ever really get.
So while you know that kids don’t actually get 200 or even 94 doses of vaccines, can you guess how many they actually get?
Including yearly flu shots, which accounts for at least 19 of the doses, through age 18 years, kids can get about 56 shots, with protection against 17 different vaccine preventable diseases.
Of course, most kids don’t get that many “shots” though, thanks to combination vaccines.
Using the latest combination vaccines and the nasal spray flu vaccine, your child might get as few as 27 individual shots and still be completely vaccinated and protected!
And while your children will get more shots than was given in the 1960s and 1980s, they will also have protection against many more diseases.
Those extra vaccine doses are saving lives.
Think about that the next time you wonder if kids are getting too many vaccines…
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Last Updated on May 1, 2025
