Ya know what jumped out and slapped me in the face?

the final tag line to the piece sums up why they want to push people into multiple injections at one time...

"it reduces the number of visits a parent has to make to the clinic,"

Sounds like pressure from the HMO's to reduce costs...

Less than 100 people die while they have the chickenpox in any given year, out of approx 300,000,000 people. More children die each year from accidental deaths in the home. Maybe we should forget vax for chicken pox and remove all children from their homes. It would certainly save more lives...