Woodland Park Pediatrics, PC

10/15/2025

🛡️ MMR VACCINE: WHAT PARENTS NEED TO KNOW
A quick guide from Woodland Park Pediatrics

👶 What is the MMR Vaccine?
Protects against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella — three serious, highly contagious diseases.

✅ One combined shot (MMR) has been safely used since 1971

✅ Protects your child and the community

✅ Fewer injections, better protection

🎧 Learn More in 17 Minutes
Public Health On Call Podcast – Episode 963
“Should We Separate the MMR Vaccine?”
🎙️ Dr. William Moss, Johns Hopkins infectious disease expert
📎 Listen here

📌 Key Takeaways from Experts

🔹 The MMR vaccine is safe and effective
Decades of data show a strong safety record. Serious side effects are extremely rare.

🔹 Splitting the vaccine is NOT recommended
There’s no scientific benefit — only added risks of missed doses and more illness.

🔹 Measles is making a comeback
Lower vaccination rates = rising outbreaks. MMR protects your child and others.

💬 FAQs

❓ Question ✅ Answer
Can I separate MMR into 3 shots? Not recommended. No added safety and more risk.
Is the vaccine safe? Yes — backed by 50+ years of research and monitoring.
Why vaccinate if others do? High community protection only works when most children are vaccinated.

🏥 Our Commitment
Woodland Park Pediatrics follows CDC guidelines and supports the MMR vaccine as a safe, proven way to protect your child.

Have questions? Let’s talk. We’re here for you.

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🧠 Remember: Vaccines don’t just protect your child — they protect your whole community.
Stay safe. Stay informed. Stay protected.

09/04/2025

Florida has just put a target on every child in this country. If you don’t think these childhood diseases exist, go visit Africa, South Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia even Europe and Central Asia. The petty politicians of Florida are endangered all Americans. Forrest Gump said it best “Stupid is what Stupid does.”

As a pediatrician in Florida, I’m alarmed and outraged by today’s announcement:

Florida plans to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates, including those for measles, polio, chickenpox, hepatitis B, and more, becoming the first U.S. state to fully reject school immunization requirements.

The state’s Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, even likened these mandates to “slavery” and labeled them “immoral intrusions” on parental and bodily autonomy.

This isn’t just reckless, it’s downright dangerous.

National and Florida-specific data show:

- For the 2024–25 school year, about 5.1% of Florida kindergartners , roughly 11,287 children, were already exempted from one or more vaccines. That’s second only to Texas in total number.

- Immunization rates among U.S. kindergartners have slipped well below the 95% threshold critical for herd immunity, while measles cases have reached levels not seen since before its eradication in 2000.

- The CDC estimates that childhood vaccines have prevented over a million deaths and saved trillions of dollars in medical costs since the mid-1990s.

Worst-case scenario?

Our children could suffer the return of devastating, vaccine-preventable diseases: measles, polio, whooping cough, rubella, a resurgence that could lead to illnesses, hospitalizations, long-term complications, and even deaths.

This rollback could cascade:

1. Outbreaks in schools would quickly spread to homes—impacting infants, immunocompromised people, and elderly family members.

2. Florida’s status as a major travel and tourist hub means these diseases won’t stay within state lines.

3. We could see a multi‐generational health catastrophe, undoing decades of public health progress.

Let’s be clear: As pediatricians in this state, and especially here on my page, we will not stay quiet.

We will keep fighting for science-based care and evidence-driven policy.

This page remains a trusted hub where you can find reliable, peer-reviewed data, vaccine safety information, and truthful explanations to keep your children safe, healthy, and alive.

And yes, I’ll always back up every statement with transparent, evidence-based proof.

Finally, we must address the troubling political backdrop: the Attorney General has consistently embraced conspiracy theories and misinformation, often pushing them for personal gain. That is unacceptable. We will stand firm, united as pediatricians, relying on science, not disinformation, to protect our kids.

Thank you for being here. I promise to continue providing clarity, care, and truth, because our children’s lives depend on it.

Full article here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

https://apnews.com/article/florida-childhood-vaccines-mandate-eliminate-desantis-363323dcdd3811ca9ad7def5f9a30fb2

07/04/2025

06/19/2025

Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865, the date when enslaved African Americans in Texas were finally informed of their freedom, highlighting a delayed justice and a critical turning point in American history.

https://www.letsgolearn.com/education-reform/juneteenth-2025/

06/08/2025

'Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un' translated from the Arabic means 'To Allah we belong and to him we will return.’ Late last night we lost a member of our practice- six-year-old boy with chronic medical condition since birth. Please keep him and his family in your prayers.

05/27/2025

In addition to your local library, here are some great reading programs available for free to help your child keep reading thru the summer

05/11/2025

Happy Mother’s Day ❤️

05/01/2025

With permission of the family I will be honoring a beautiful little boy named William (Liam) who was stolen from this world far too soon (not the boy in the story below), and his family, I’ll be posting daily to educate about vaccines, the critical importance of vaccination for yourself and your kids, and the very real threat the antivax movement poses to public health and grieving families.

Antivaxxers don’t just spread dangerous misinformation and disinformation — they exploit the deepest pain of loss parents, weaponizing their stories to fuel lies while compounding unimaginable grief. This cruelty cannot be tolerated, and it’s time to push back with truth, compassion, and science.

***SAME OLD DISCLAIMER: I will not tolerate any antivax comments or any misinformation regarding
vaccines on my page and anyone commenting with such will be deleted and banned without warning (including fake questions/comments meant to disguise the true agenda - I see through this). I’m happy to post links from reputable sources as additional information but I WILL NOT engage with science deniers, especially on this topic.

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Day #1 -Grief Should Never Be Exploited: Standing for Science and Families.

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My 6-Year-Old Son Died. Then the Anti-vaxxers Found Out.

“My grief is profound, ragged, desperate. I cannot imagine how anything could feel worse. But vaccine opponents on the internet, who somehow assumed that a COVID shot was responsible for my son’s death, thought my family’s pain was funny. “Lol. Yay for the jab. Right? Right?” wrote one person on Twitter. “Your decision to vaccinate your son resulted in his death,” wrote another. “This is all on YOU.” “Murder in the first.”

“Strangers swiped the photo from Twitter and wrote vile things on it. They’d mined my tweets, especially ones where I had written about the public-health benefits of vaccination. Someone needed to make me pay for vaccinating my child, one person insinuated. Another said my other children would be next if they were vaccinated too.”

Full story here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/03/28/my-6-year-old-son-died-then-the-anti-vaxxers-found-out/

04/18/2025

Think your kid’s inhaler is enough? Not so fast! Dr. Mike explains why a spacer is the secret weapon for better asthma control.