The Vaccine Book

Making the Right Decision for Your Child (Updated in 2023)

By: Robert W. Sears MD MD

Narrated by: Dan Woren

The Vaccine Book offers parents a fair, impartial, fact-based resource from the most trusted name in pediatrics. Dr. Bob devotes each chapter in the book to a disease/vaccine pair and offers a comprehensive discussion of what the disease is, how common or rare it is, how serious or harmless it is, the ingredients of the vaccine, and any possible side effects from the vaccine.

This completely revised edition offers:

Updated information on each vaccine and disease More detail on vaccines' side effects Expanded discussions of combination vaccines A new section on adult vaccines Additional options for alternative vaccine schedules A guide to Canadian vaccinations

The Vaccine Book provides exactly the information parents want and need as they make their way through the vaccination maze.

Amazing and not pushy at all

I was on the fence on which way to go and this book made me feel so informed in every vax decision I could have made. Thankful

Great for first time moms

Very informative for moms and dads that just want to make a wise decision on all vaccines. This book helps us do that by being very thorough and informative. Truly grateful to have come across this book and Doctor

Worth the listen

I appreciated the way the information was laid out. Easy to digest and unbiased. Easy to listen to and very informative. Thank you for writing this and helping us parents make choices without predjudice.

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Good information and interesting approaches to vaccination, considerations about the pros and cons of vaccination.

Good info, but weird format

There is a lot of great information in this book. If you plan to read it all the way through, then go back to other sections, it is very good.

What's odd is that it leaves out a lot critical information regarding vaccine safety data until the end. The first half+ of the book is going vaccine by vaccine, listing off stats and ingredients showing benefit and risk.

The problem with doing so in this order is that it makes the risks for each seem minimal as he reads off the official data. It isn't until later that he reveals key points including the vast underreporting in VAERS, selective use and destruction of safety studies, and more in depth reasoning for why concerning ingredients are dangerous.

If the chapters were flipped around where he explained the data/ingredients first, then went shot by shot, I would've given it the 5th star.

This book is not a blatantly pro or anti vaccine book. If you lean in either direction, there will be things that you love in here and things that you hate. It is a good bridge for trying to inform yourself or someone you know.

If you're pro vaccine and read this, you'll probably be more open to reading anti vaccine books after. If you're anti vaccine, you're going to end up checking several stats that indicate high efficacy for several of these shots that you credited completely to sanitation improvements.