I am afraid that Anna O’Malley’s March 3 opinion piece, “Furthering the conversation on vaccination,” undermines rather than furthers the conversation by including inaccurate claims that could scare parents from vaccinating on schedule and providing their children with optimal protection from disease.
It is to Dr. O’Malley’s credit that she correctly highlights the incredible effectiveness of vaccines, which are estimated to save tens of thousands of lives per birth cohort and hundreds of thousands of…