Some comments: In Australia the immunisation schedule includes (at the age of 2,4 and 6 months) 8 vaccines, one of which includes 13 valencies (13v pneumococc

Some comments: In Australia the immunisation schedule includes (at the age of 2,4 and 6 months) 8 vaccines, one of which includes 13 valencies (13v pneumococcal pneumoniae). This is effectively 20 vaccines at the same time due to the 13 bacterial components included in pneumovax. You are right in that not only is it standard of care (ie, not dangerous) but it is less traumatic to have them all at once (8 vaccines is 5 needles and a syrup for rotavirus, the addition of which decreased paediatric hospital admissions in Australia by 100,000 pa). Above all else, it is actually more effective to deliver multiple vaccines at once. More antigens seem to generate a stronger immune response, not in 'severity', as in, possibility of severe reaction, but in seroconversion and decreased need for additional later vaccines.