--- title: Why Vaccinations Are Safe description: Watch TIME Editor-at-Large Jeffrey Kluger explain why getting vaccinated is safe and effective. canonical: https://time.com/5530611/vaccines-safe-effective/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-15T20:26:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T22:47:14.470Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Yes, Vaccines Really Are Safe and Effective. 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(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) HIALEAH, FL - AUGUST 08: Barbara Dale, a school nurse, prepares an immunization needle for a child August 8, 2007 in Hialeah, Florida. The free immunization is part of the Miami-Dade County Health Department's program to help children heading back to school. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle—Getty Images  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Feb 15, 2019 8:26 PM UTC Yet another outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease — this time [measles in the Pacific Northwest](http://time.com/5524505/measles-washington-vaccination/) — provides another reminder of the importance of getting children fully vaccinated, on schedule. Anti-vax or vaccine-skeptical parents are certainly not acting out of malevolence. They’re doing what they believe will protect their children’s health. But the fact is they’re achieving the opposite — potentially endangering their health. Those are the facts. 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