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Look at the sponsors for the American Academy of Pediatrics. They are nearly all vaccine manufacturers. AAP was previously embarrassed into ending their Coca Cola sponsorship while they wrote childhood obesity guidelines. They should be similarly embarrassed by this corporate sponsorship.

Pediatricians are probably the least money focused of any specialty and yet industry has been allowed to buy their leadership while they make decisions benefiting that industry. Their change to guidelines for vaccinating with hepatitis B at birth helped bolster an $8 billion dollar market for their sponsors Merck and GSK. Other countries quite reasonable delay this vaccine for STIs with better safety and long-term immunity.

https://www.aap.org/en/philanthropy/corporate-and-organizational-partners/current-partners/?srsltid=AfmBOooqzHTsJkdvm5TqjgpH5HmTfB7pLqMMiqjmgpW7V0jONOpcbO50

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I think your also missing the fact that vaccine help drive those 35 office visit. Revenue from those visits exceeds vaccine charges and can be important to sustaining a practice

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Great information here. Many thanks

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