{"id":653792,"date":"2026-08-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=653792"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:00:00","slug":"if-other-countries-give-fewer-shots-why-cant-we-ask-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=653792","title":{"rendered":"If Other Countries Give Fewer Shots, Why Can&#8217;t We Ask Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">If Other Countries Give Fewer Shots, Why Can&#8217;t We Ask Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/if-other-countries-give-fewer-shots-why-can-t-we-ask-why\/\"><em>Authored by Jack Hellner via AmericanThinker.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By age 18, a child in the United States can receive roughly 30 to 75 total vaccine doses<\/strong> if they follow standard schedules and get annual flu shots. Fewer shots are needed because vaccines are combined.<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/yp8xofxbsacjaqismel7_640.jpg?itok=3uhrA5N0\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/yp8xofxbsacjaqismel7_640.jpg?itok=3uhrA5N0\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c200dce2-e12a-4b72-bd90-94a55bd87b40\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"314\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/yp8xofxbsacjaqismel7_640.jpg?itok=3uhrA5N0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By comparison,<strong> in Germany, <\/strong>the Robert Koch Institute (via the Standing Committee on Vaccination, STIKO) recommends routine protection against about <strong>12 to 15<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Europe, in <strong>England, children receive around 20 to 25<\/strong> individual vaccine doses from birth to age 14, delivered via <strong>roughly 14 to 16 actual needle injections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, under <strong>Japan<\/strong>\u2019s routine immunization program, children receive around<strong> 20 to 22 <\/strong>individual injection shots.<\/p>\n<p>And in <strong>Spain<\/strong>, children receive around <strong>15 to 18<\/strong> individual injection shots from birth through adolescence under the official public health system.<\/p>\n<p>These comparisons raise some obvious questions.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Doesn\u2019t it look like children in the United States get more shots today, and there would be a valid reason to recommend fewer? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do children in countries with fewer shots have worse health results?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do other countries ignore science when they have fewer shots?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if the media were curious instead of just repeating talking points to trash President Donald Trump?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And vaccines aren\u2019t the only area of health care where such questions should be asked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They never wanted affordable care. They wanted government-controlled care.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 08\/18\/2026 &#8211; 05:00<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/yp8xofxbsacjaqismel7_640.jpg?itok=3uhrA5N0\" title=\"If Other Countries Give Fewer Shots, Why Can&apos;t We Ask Why?\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Other Countries Give Fewer Shots, Why Can&#8217;t We Ask Why? 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,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=653792\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If Other Countries Give Fewer Shots, Why Can&#8217;t We Ask Why?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":653793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/653793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}