{"id":9235,"date":"2025-12-19T23:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/denmark-vaccine-schedule-vs-us\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:02:39","slug":"denmark-vaccine-schedule-vs-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/denmark-vaccine-schedule-vs-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Why Denmark\u2019s vaccine schedule works for Denmark \u2014 but not for the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion: Why Denmark\u2019s vaccine schedule works for Denmark \u2014 but not for the United States
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Reports that the Department of Health and Human Services may overhaul<\/a> the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule<\/a> to resemble Denmark\u2019s<\/a> have prompted a reasonable question: Why do American children receive vaccines against diseases that Danish children do not?<\/p>\n

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\u2019s schedule is calibrated to Danish realities. Adopting it here would leave American children unprotected against diseases we have spent decades bringing under control.<\/p>\n

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Opinion: Why Denmark\u2019s vaccine schedule works for Denmark \u2014 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\u2019s have prompted a reasonable question: Why do American children receive vaccines against diseases that Danish children do not? The answer is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2433,2143,2179,2180,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-health","category-first-opinion","category-infectious-disease","category-public-health","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}