swamping it with several innoculations at a time is probably unwise
The day you're born you meet thousands of new antigens, and thousands more the next, and so on. They're no evidence that the immune system can be "swamped". The best opinion I've heard was from an immonolgist who estimated that even small children could probably safely react to about 100 000 new antigens at one time.
if the consequence of giving them no choice is that the child gets no shots at all.
In general, that isn't the consequence. The effect of three separate jabs is more often that at least one is missed. This is in practice, not in some thought experiment.
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Date: 2006-07-10 08:47 pm (UTC)The day you're born you meet thousands of new antigens, and thousands more the next, and so on. They're no evidence that the immune system can be "swamped". The best opinion I've heard was from an immonolgist who estimated that even small children could probably safely react to about 100 000 new antigens at one time.
if the consequence of giving them no choice is that the child gets no shots at all.
In general, that isn't the consequence. The effect of three separate jabs is more often that at least one is missed. This is in practice, not in some thought experiment.