{"id":17377,"date":"2026-08-20T12:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&#038;p=17377"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:51:15","slug":"are-vaccines-as-big-as-a-soda-bottle","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/are-vaccines-as-big-as-a-soda-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Are vaccines as big as a soda bottle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row source=&#8221;&#8221; text=&#8221;Clinical Trials&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Abril%20Fatface%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1708910874436{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Claim:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]At a presser last Monday, President Trump claimed that the vaccines a child receives are as large as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/08\/10\/health\/video\/erin-burnett-debunks-trump-claim-that-a-kids-vaccine-is-size-of-a-bottle-of-soda-digvid\">a bottle of soda<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Facts:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<ul>\n<li>One vaccine is tiny: one vaccine dose is about\u00a0<strong>0.5 mL of liquid<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Even several vaccines add up to only a few milliliters: The vaccines given in the\u00a0<strong>first two years<\/strong>\u00a0total about\u00a0<strong>7 mL<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The childhood vaccination schedule\u00a0still takes up little space: up to 31 mL over 18 years, which is only about 5% of a 20-ounce soda bottle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pediatrician\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/Db4RD_EJGtw\/%C2%A0\">Dr. Nicole Baldwin<\/a>\u00a0responded to the claim that babies get an amount of vaccine liquid as large as a 20-ounce bottle of soda. To show the real amount, she holds up a 20-ounce soda bottle, 8 ounces of water, and a 3 mL syringe. She also shows a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/downloads.aap.org\/AAP\/PDF\/AAP-Immunization-Schedule.pdf\">list<\/a>\u00a0of the vaccines she gives in her clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Each vaccine contains about 0.5 mL of liquid. Using a syringe, you can measure the amount a child would get at different ages. For example, one vaccine is about half a milliliter, two vaccines are about 1 mL, and three vaccines are about 1.5 mL. During the first two years of life, the vaccines add up to about 7 mL of liquid.<\/p>\n<p>But what about the vaccines a child might get through age 18? Add yearly flu vaccines and COVID vaccines, and all of that adds up to 31 mL of liquid over 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>A 20-ounce soda bottle holds about 591 mL of liquid. So 31 mL would\u00a0<strong>fill only about 5% of the bottle<\/strong>, or about 1\/19 of it. That would look like just a small amount of liquid at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>One vaccine dose is a very small amount of liquid, and even many vaccine doses added together over many years would fill only a small part of a 20-ounce soda bottle.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccines are not as large as a soda bottle: one dose is about 0.5 mL, and the full childhood schedule through age 18 is roughly 31 mL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[199,301,432,190,218],"class_list":["post-17377","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-childhood-vaccines","jtf_topic_subjects-covid","jtf_topic_subjects-dr-nicole-baldwin","jtf_topic_subjects-influenza","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/17377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/17377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17381,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/17377\/revisions\/17381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=17377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}