Pediatricians Discuss Vaccines & Risk | Vaccine Conversations | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

If you’re a parent, you likely have a lot of questions about your children’s vaccines. Watch Dr. Paul Offit, Director of the Vaccine Education Center, and Dr. Risa Hoshino, a pediatrician and public health physician, discuss common questions about vaccines and risk, including why we give vaccines for diseases we don’t see, how likely it is for a child to get a vaccine-preventable disease, how parents can consider risk, and what it means to say there is no such thing as a “risk-free choice.”

For information about vaccines and vaccine safety, visit http://vaccine.chop.edu.

Dr. Hoshino can be found on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube @dr.risahoshino and on Twitter @risahoshinomd.

00:00 Introductions
00:35 Why do we give vaccines for diseases we don’t see?
4:14 How likely is it that my child will get a vaccine-preventable disease?
6:33 How can parents make sure they are considering risk appropriately?
7:22 What does “there’s no such thing as a risk-free choice” mean?

Video created by and for the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

The Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (VEC at CHOP) is composed of scientists, physicians, mothers, and fathers devoted to the study and prevention of infectious diseases. The Center was launched in October 2000 to provide accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date information about vaccines and the diseases they prevent.

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