Most doctors asked to skip or delay vaccines

Published March 2, 2015 4:18pm ET



The vast majority of doctors are asked by parents to space out vaccines for kids under age 2 instead of going with the timeframe recommended by health authorities, a new survey finds.

Ninty-three percent of physicians said they’re regularly asked to vary from the schedule laid out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and one in five said they get that request from at least 10 percent of patients, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics.

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