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Exhibit 001

The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety

Exhibit 001 ยท Consensus report

The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety

No studies have compared the differences in health outcomes that some stakeholders questioned between entirely unimmunized populations of children and fully immunized children.

Found that no study had examined the cumulative effect of the entire childhood schedule or compared fully unvaccinated children. Recommended using existing data systems such as the Vaccine Safety Datalink for that comparison, and judged a new randomized trial of the schedule unethical.

Source
Institute of Medicine (National Academies)
Date
2013
Quoted from
IOM, The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety (2013), Summary, pp. 5-6 (NAP online reader, chapter 2; text runs across the page break)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/13563/chapter/2
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding MED-3.2
Primary record No study has compared children who received the full childhood schedule with children who received none.