Trump's Vaccine Order Will Show Up in My ICU
(MedPage Today) -- Any cost-benefit analysis has two columns. President Trump's August 10 executive order on vaccines considers neither. If put into action, it would impose a burden on families in the form of additional medical visits, yet it carries...
President Trump's August 10 executive order on vaccines proposes changes to the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule without providing any cost-benefit analysis. The order recommends that children receive vaccines at separate visits, rather than all at once, and reduces the number of universally recommended childhood vaccines. The White House fact sheet accompanying the order does not address the costs of these changes, nor does it analyze the impact on families with limited resources.
The order also proposes moving flu and COVID shots to shared decision-making. The author, who works in the ICU, argues that the schedule changes would impose a significant burden on families, increasing medical visits, travel time, and out-of-pocket costs. The order fails to quantify the potential harm of multiple injections at one time or assess the value of changing the schedule.
The author concludes that a cost-benefit analysis is warranted before implementing any changes to the vaccine schedule.
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