National Vaccine Information Center:s Barbara Loe Fisher And American Academy Of Pediatrics: Dr. Tan
NBC ID: ART1QQ21BN | Production Unit: Today Show | Media Type: Aired Show | Media ID: NY-TDY-20071019-0001 | Air Date(s): 10/19/2007 | Event Date(s): 10/19/2007Transcript
Event Date(s): 10/19/2007 | Event Location(s): Today New York Studio;Washington, DC;Los Angeles, California; | Description: EJ: 8:11:34 (:25) INT 2 MS: Doctor (faces unseen) gives a vaccination to a child. MS: Doctor gives a vaccine to a baby as the baby's mother and another woman watch. 3 MS: Mother holds baby as doctor gives a vaccine to the baby. 3 MS: Doctor gives vaccine to crying boy held by his mother. 3 MS: Doctor gives vaccine to boy sitting on his mother's lap. 3 MS: Mother holds toddler on exam table as doctor prepares to give a vaccine. 3 MS: The baby cries and is comforted by its mother as the doctor gives a vaccine injection. 3 MS: Mother holds baby and comforts a crying toddler who is holding her arm. National Vaccine Information Center's Barbara Loe Fisher seen in live 3-way remote from Washington DC. American Academy Of Pediatrics' Dr. Tanya Remer Altmann seen in live 3-way remote from Los Angeles, California. Fisher says the debate about parents refusing to allow their children to be vaccinated is more intense today than ever because the states are requiring twice as many vaccines as ten or 20 years ago, notes health risks of vaccines, says there's a public health crisis, notes health problems her children suffered after getting vaccines, says the state doesn't have the right to force her to put her children at risk when her children are vulnerable to vaccines due to genetics, and says every parent has the right to make an informed decision on vaccines. Altmann says many parents are misinformed, says the Internet has a lot of misinformation, says when parents get the correct information they choose to get the vaccines, says vaccines save lives, and says it only takes one child to cause an outbreak.