Authored by Jack Hellner via AmericanThinker.com,

By age 18, a child in the United States can receive roughly 30 to 75 total vaccine doses if they follow standard schedules and get annual flu shots. Fewer shots are needed because vaccines are combined.

By comparison, in Germany, the Robert Koch Institute (via the Standing Committee on Vaccination, STIKO) recommends routine protection against about 12 to 15 infectious diseases for children. Because Germany relies heavily on multi-component combination shots (like the 6-in-1 hexavalent vaccine), children receive roughly 11 to 14 actual physical injections.

Elsewhere in Europe, in England, children receive around 20 to 25 individual vaccine doses from birth to age 14, delivered via roughly 14 to 16 actual needle injections.

Similarly, under Japan’s routine immunization program, children receive around 20 to 22 individual injection shots.

And in Spain, children receive around 15 to 18 individual injection shots from birth through adolescence under the official public health system.

These comparisons raise some obvious questions.

Doesn’t it look like children in the United States get more shots today, and there would be a valid reason to recommend fewer?

Do children in countries with fewer shots have worse health results?

Do other countries ignore science when they have fewer shots?

Wouldn’t it be nice if the media were curious instead of just repeating talking points to trash President Donald Trump?

And vaccines aren’t the only area of health care where such questions should be asked.

Obamacare is one of the worst and most costly bills ever passed, yet the media and other Democrats still falsely claim that it makes health care more affordable.

If Democrats just wanted to cover the poor and those at high risk, they would have just expanded Medicaid and high-risk pools instead of destroying the whole system.

They never wanted affordable care. They wanted government-controlled care.