#(which is good! far less childhood disease! but we now vax at 2 months with combos that weren’t available even in the early 90s)

[zahri-melitor]

There is a wrinkle where a chunk of those vaccines used to be done a lot later and only got moved into the under 5s as efficacy was proven with early childhood doses, so it does depend on when you are positing Clark was a toddler (Rubella and the Hepatitis series’ in particular, plus varicella), but it’s indisputable that if Clark was not invulnerable as a small child he would have had at least his polio (possibly as oral so it was always an easy one), childhood DTP aand his initial MM.

If it’s the 60s: he got polio, DTP and maybe measles, plus smallpox which I’m unsure on the age they administered.

If it’s the 70s: smallpox WAS still scheduled, measles only, polio, DTP and a teenage rubella dose available (but he wouldn’t have had that).

If it’s the 80s: polio, measles and mumps were administered together and weren’t a combo with rubella until 89 (plus it would have been a single under 5 dose with a later booster), DTP/DTaP (uh the age he got this might have gone up, he might have only had DT because of various vaccine production scandals and issues), Hep B was available but not commonly administered outside of risk populations yet.

If it’s the 90s: polio, MMR one dose, DTaP fine again, Hep A, Hib, varicella introduced. He would have had 4/5 year old boosters offered for some and 12 year old boosters for others. Hep B started becoming routine but again at that 12 year old point.

If it’s the 2000s: polio, MMR 2 dose, DTaP, Hep A, Hep B, Hib, varicella all shifted to under 5s. Polio moved into a combo needle rather than oral. HPV at 13+ introduced, initially only for girls.

(Sorry nerdy stuff, but the bigger problem for Clark would actually have been the 12 year old boosters as they were a lot more common in the 70s-90s)

sometimes i think about that thing where it's like "oh do martha & john kent have to act like anti-vaxxers because clark was too invulnerable to get his childhood vaccinations" and it's like. idk!! the answer to that is "it depends, at what age did his invulnerability start?" because like, my understanding is that these powers didn't start manifesting until he was a little older, and if that's the case then it's entirely possible that he could have gotten a good chunk of vaccines?

because the standard schedule* is as follows:

hep b: birth, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months (depending on vaccine series)

rotavirus (oral vaccine): 2 month, 4 months, 6 months

dtap: 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 15 months, 4 years, tdap booster every 10 years after

hib: 2 months, 4 months, 15 months

pneumococcal: 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 15 months

polio: 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 4-6 years

flu: 6 months+ (2 doses 4 weeks apart for first year), optional yearly after that

mmr: 12 months, 4-6 years

varicella: 12 months, 4-6 years

hep A: 12 months, 18 months

hpv: ~10-11 years old

meningococcal acwy: ~11, 16

meningococcal b: 16-18

(the standard schedule may have slight variations to this, but these are usually the ages when the vaccine is first offered)

so, like. his ability to be vaccinated likely has to do with when exactly his invulnerability developed. if it at all started after 5, he likely would have received every childhood immunization & booster available. the only ones he wouldn't be able to get are yearly flu, hpv, & meningococcal. which, flu & hpv aren't necessarily required for school. meningococcal & tdap booster is usually a school requirement, so they might need to falsify those ones. if his invulnerability started around age 3, he wouldn't have been able to get the majority of his boosters as needed for school & would need to falsify boosters, but would still have received most of the major ones as an infant. if he was invulnerable from birth, the only one he'd be able to get is rotavirus. because that's an oral one.