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Vaccine Schedule – Why So Many?
Children grow through predictable ages and stages — from learning to talk and walk, to learning to make friends. Your child’s immune system has stages, too and, because of that, vaccine timing matters. Vaccines work best when your child’s body is ready to respond best.
Building immunity is like learning to read. Newborn vaccines are the beginner books that teach your baby’s immune system to recognize and resist serious diseases. Just as a child grows from board books, to Dr. Seuss, to “Captain Underpants” - their immune system grows and gets stronger with each vaccine.
All About the Recommended Immunization Schedules
Vaccine Safety
Our communities in Hawaii have benefited from vaccines for more than 60 years. They’ve been scientifically designed to teach the immune system to recognize and resist serious diseases and are carefully tested and monitored over time.
As parents, you want to keep your kids healthy. Medical researchers care about children, too, so they carefully test and monitor the ingredients in vaccines. Each ingredient in a vaccine has a specific function, making the vaccine work better with your child’s immune system.
Vaccine Safety: Examine the Evidence
Vaccine Ingredients: Frequently Asked Questions
How Vaccines are Developed, Safety Tested and Approved: Step by Step
Fact checked: Vaccines: Safe and Effective, No Link to Autism
Are Vaccines Safe for Children? The Truth About Risks & Benefits
Community Immunity
Because routine childhood immunizations are widely available in the U.S., most kids today will never get whooping cough, tetanus, polio or meningitis. When vaccination is widespread, contagious diseases have a hard time spreading.
That’s called community immunity, and it protects the people on our islands. It keeps preventable diseases at bay, keeps our children focused on growing and learning, and sets young people up for lifelong health and well-being.
Vaccine Protection: How Healthy is Your Community?
Other Important Topics
While vaccines are in the news and discussed in social media a lot, we know parents have all kinds of questions.
AAP’s Healthy Children website has a wealth of information. Here are links to other frequently asked about important topics: