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Fearmongering (spreading exaggerated alarm to shift behavior, rather than to inform a decision) is what some federal leaders are doing on childhood vaccines, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics now argues.
The AAP is the national professional society for pediatricians, the physicians who advise families on childhood immunizations as part of routine care.
Its president, writing for a general audience, draws on more than 30 years of practice and parenthood to make one argument: new parents are trying to get it right, and the current environment is making that harder.
The situation, in plain terms, looks like this. Parents of a newborn arrive at early decisions under pressure. Pride and exhaustion come at the same time.
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