Letter from Dr. David Tayloe, Jr. Regarding Vaccines

(Op Ed section of News-Argus and Raleigh News and Observer)

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I was appalled at all of President Trump’s ridiculous statements concerning childhood vaccines: first, there is no scientific evidence that vaccines cause autism; second, there are no component vaccines into which we can divide the MMR (Measles-Mumps-Rubella) vaccine; and third, if we require parents to bring their children in for numerous unnecessary office encounters to receive necessary vaccines, our immunization rates will plummet and we will have more epidemics of vaccine-preventable diseases like the measles epidemic we are having now secondary to our failure to immunize enough children with the MMR vaccine. As I begin my fiftieth year of pediatric practice in our community, I am not aware of a single child in our practice who has suffered any permanent injury because of a childhood vaccine.

Source:
Dave Tayloe, Jr., MD, FAAP
Founder, Goldsboro Pediatrics, PA
2706 Medical Office Place
Goldsboro, NC 27534
919-734-4736
August 13, 2026

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