CORNELIA FRANZ, MD ON VACCINES
When I started practice, everybody only got
two [vaccines] at a time. And I actually began to see problems with it
even early on because when I started practice we used the original DPT.
So, kids on monitors, I noticed that they had increased alarms after
vaccines. So I made sure that they were aggressive with fever control
and things afterward. And then, as time went on in the late 80s they
started to increase the number of vaccines, and I had a problem with
that because giving just two at a time was hard enough but now they
wanted to give four or five, six at a time. So I made the decision at
that time that our practice would only give two at a time. It was never
more than two at a time. And then, as more time went on, I started
seeing truly vaccine injured kids. I started seeing a lot of autistic
children and their parents all said the same thing. They said my child
was fine till they got this shot and then within a week we lost him.