CLAIM: Japan stopped mandatory childhood vaccinations in 1994, vastly improving the country’s infant mortality rate.
By contrast, the U.S. has the highest childhood vaccination rate and has “the worst infant mortality rate of the western nations.”
THE FACTS: Social media users are sharing a post that compares the infant mortality rates in Japan and the U.S., drawing a false conclusion that they are different due to each country’s laws around vaccines. While it’s true that Japan’s infant mortality rate is far lower than the United States’, and that childhood vaccines aren’t required in the Asian nation, there is no connection between the two, experts say.
“To point to vaccinations as the cause, one would need a randomized clinical trial showing that infant vaccines have increased infant deaths,” said Alice Chen, vice dean for research at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy. “No such data that I am aware of does that.”
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