Author: everychildbytwo


I Was Vaccinated and All I Got Was a Sore Arm

Every day, all around the world, infants, children and adults are getting vaccinated.  If we were to calculate the exact number of vaccines administered in just one given day, I’m certain...


Take Action In Support of National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

By Amy Pisani, Executive Director of Every Child By Two Last week a group of activists from The Canary Party held a Congressional briefing which was intended to raise...


Congressional Briefing Attempts to Discredit Vaccine Injury Compensation

On November 7th, a congressional briefing, entitled “The Injustice of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)” was sponsored by “The Canary Party” and billed as a precursor to a...


Providers Are Most Persuasive On Vaccinations When Speaking with Confidence and Conviction

Doctors have been using science to evaluate the safety and efficacy of vaccines for decades.  Yet, we’re only just beginning to explore how the science of communication can help...


Flu Deaths Among Young, Healthy and Unvaccinated

The flu is predictably unpredictable.  Each year we know it’s coming and yet people – sometimes even children – will fall ill and die.  We just can’t predict when it will arrive, how...


Experiences from the Heart of the Polio Outbreaks

By Amy Pisani As both a Rotarian and the director of Every Child By Two – Carter/Bumpers’ Champions of Immunization, my commitment to playing a small part in eradicating...


Nurses Night Out Focuses On Polio Prevention

This guest post was written by Melody Butler, BSN, RN, and pediatric nurse.  As the founder of Nurses Who Vaccinate , Melody has received various national honors, including the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Immunity...


Personal Stories Reaffirm Our Commitment to Eradicate Polio

Nurses Who Vaccinate is hosting a Nurses Night Out event on World Polio Day, October 24th in Islip, NY.  In an effort to spread the word, the question arose...


Governor's Directive May Undermine State Vaccine Exemption Policies

Last year, an immunization bill to help protect the children, schools and communities in California from vaccine preventable diseases was introduced to the State Assembly.  This proposed bill (AB 2109)...


New Evidence of Risk from Delaying Vaccines

Statistics show that by age two, one in eight children were undervaccinated at some point in time due to parental decisions to delay or refuse certain vaccines.  Despite the evidence that the infant...