Opinion: Why Denmark’s vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States
Reports that the Department of Health and Human Services may overhaul the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule to resemble Denmark’s have prompted a reasonable question: Why do American children receive vaccines against diseases that Danish children do not?
The answer is not that one country has better science. It is that the two countries have fundamentally different health care systems, disease burdens, and policy priorities. Denmark’s schedule is calibrated to Danish realities. Adopting it here would leave American children unprotected against diseases we have spent decades bringing under control.
Jake Scott
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