June 2025: Despite ongoing misinformation, the hepatitis B vaccine has been extensively tested and proven safe and effective. Administering the vaccine within the first 24 hours of life provides strong protection. Review and share this short article from the American Academy of Pediatrics, Fact Checked: Hepatitis B Vaccine Given to Newborns Reduces Risk of Chronic Infection, which covers key facts and evidence.

For more information, see Why Do Babies Need the Hepatitis B Vaccine? and How Do Children Get Hepatitis? from HealthyChildren.org.

October 2025: "Misleading claims that the cumulative number of vaccines on the childhood immunization schedule can overwhelm a child's immune system or cause other issues are inaccurate and dangerous." Review and share the key facts and evidence from Fact Checked: Receiving Multiple Vaccines Does Not Overwhelm a Child’s Immune System from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

August 2025: As respiratory virus season approaches, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has published an evidence-based immunization schedule that includes updated guidance for influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 immunizations for children and adolescents from birth to age 18. View this article, All About the Recommended Immunization Schedules from the AAP's HealthyChildren.org for trusted guidance.

Recommended Immunizations for Children Birth Through 6 Years Old

Recommended Immunizations for Adolescents 7 Through 18 Years Old

Additional Resources from HealthyChildren.org:

How Vaccine Schedules Changed Over Time & Why

Vaccines Your Child Needs by Age 6

Why Pediatricians Recommend Vaccines: An Open Letter to Parents

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Vaccine Education Center has several useful pages that are applicable to childcare workers and young children. These pages are consistenly updated with reliable, easily disgestible, and important information about immunizations and vaccine-preventable diseases:

1. MMR: The Diseases and the Vaccines

2. Vaccines and Infectious Diseases in the News

3. Parents PACK Newsletter - Current Monthly Issues

4. Childcare Vaccination Requirements in Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Immunization Coalition (PAIC) in partnership with the PA Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (PA-AAP) has created immunization educational materials available for purchase or instant download! These materials include Vaccine Factsheets, Disease/Consequence Cards, and the Parent's Guide to Childhood Immunizations. All materials are available in both English and Spanish. 

October 2025: View this one page PDF of evidence-based Reliable Sources of Immunization Information websites, apps, books, videos, and more from immunize.org.

Misinformation has a way of sticking around—even when science disproves it. More than two decades after the false claim linking vaccines and autism was first made (and debunked), it remains an idea that makes parents fearful or anxious about vaccinating their young children.

Fifteen years ago, Every Child By Two (now Vaccinate Your Family) and the Autism Science Foundation teamed up to develop a guide and webinar series to share the science showing no link between vaccines and autism. The guide also provides explanations of autism spectrum disorders and promising science to determine the true causes and paths towards diagnosis and treatments. Today they are sharing an updated version of The Truth About Autism and Vaccines which includes sections on:

• Vaccine Safety Research

• Autism 101

• Signs of Autism

• Early Diagnosis

• Evidence– Based Treatments