Pediatrician Video Statistics

Key takeaways

1. Pediatricians and pediatric practices speaking as themselves made 30.7% of the 557 on-topic videos among YouTube’s most-viewed ‘pediatrician’, ‘baby vaccines’ and ‘newborn care’ results and drew 16.9% of their views. Without the largest pediatrician channel, one vaccination short from a consultant in India, the share is 13.3% (our read, Nov 9, 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
2. Family or personal uploads drew 22.1% of those views and children’s entertainment channels 21.8%. Channels that show babies without a named person, and any video that names a child, appear only as a class and counts: 32.2% of the on-topic views (our read, Nov 9, 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
3. Videos of 60 seconds or less made 51.3% of the on-topic videos and drew 51.1% of the views. Titles naming a vaccine, shot or injection made 34.6% of the videos and drew 38.4% of the views (our read, Nov 9, 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
4. Of the 59 pediatrician and pediatric practice channels in that sample, 9 were placed in the U.S., with 8.6% of the on-topic videos and 4.0% of the views, and 0 on-topic channels placed themselves in Palm Beach, Broward or Martin County. Those 9 U.S. channels posted a median of 38 videos in the year to November 9, 2026 (our read). (Mark Studios) See details
5. Across eight peer-reviewed content studies of pediatric, vaccine and infant-care video published from 2023 to 2026, the median share of videos from doctors or other health professionals was 56.55% (our calculation). In a study of 7,213 vaccine-related YouTube videos followed from November 2024 to May 2025, vaccine-hesitant videos drew 2.5-2.6× the interactions per view of strongly pro-vaccine ones. (Mark Studios) See details
6. BLS estimated 39,390 wage and salary jobs for general pediatricians in May 2025, at a median of $210,040. Florida had an estimated 700 such jobs, a rough figure, at a median of $182,010. That is 54.7 jobs per 100,000 U.S. children and 15.8 in Florida, a comparison of job counts only (our calculation). (BLS) See details
7. The American Board of Medical Specialties counted 116,132 physicians with an active American Board of Pediatrics certificate at U.S. locations on June 30, 2026, and 5,979 in Florida. In Florida’s physician survey, 300 physicians in Palm Beach County, 452 in Broward and 19 in Martin reported pediatrics as a specialty. (ABMS and Florida Department of Health) See details
8. Our sum of CMS’s state rows gives 34,894,015 children on Medicaid or CHIP in preliminary July 2026. Child enrollment fell 19.1% from March 2023 in the 49 states and D.C. that reported in both months, and 26.4% in Florida. On the 2025 Child Core Set, Florida reported 61.5% of enrolled children ages 3 to 21 with a well-care visit, against a median of 52.0% among reporting states. (CMS) See details
9. Documented MMR coverage among U.S. kindergartners was 92.4% in the 2025-26 school year, down from 95.2% in 2019-20, and 88.9% in Florida, by CDC’s SchoolVaxView. Exemptions were 4.2% nationally and 5.9% in Florida. CDC reported 5,182 confirmed U.S. measles cases in 2026 as of November 5. (CDC) See details
10. On November 9, 2026, Florida’s school-immunization rule, 64D-3.046, still stood at the version effective 4/2/2013. The state’s proposal to drop hepatitis B, varicella, Hib and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines had a public hearing on October 8, 2026, which the Department of Health said does not constitute final adoption. (State of Florida) See details
11. Merck reported $2,451 million in 2025 sales of ProQuad, M-M-R II and Varivax, against $2,485 million in 2024. Our EDGAR count finds 598 Form 10-K filings from 2001 to 2025 containing pediatrician or pediatricians, 69 of which also contain video, and 0 filings through November 9, 2026 that pair them with the exact phrases educational, training, marketing, instructional or promotional video. (SEC filings) See details
12. CDC’s “1 in 36” autism figure comes from 11 surveillance sites in 2020 among children aged 8; its successor, one in 31, comes from 16 sites in 2022. CDC’s own report says those areas are not nationally representative. (CDC) See details

Who makes the most-viewed pediatrician, baby vaccine and newborn care videos on YouTube?

Pediatricians and pediatric practices speaking as themselves made 30.7% of the on-topic videos among YouTube's most-viewed 'pediatrician', 'baby vaccines' and 'newborn care' results on November 9, 2026, and drew 16.9% of their lifetime views (our count). We read YouTube's own view-sorted search results for those three lists, the first four pages of each, through the YouTube Data API with no country filter, on that one date, and classified every channel by hand from its own text. This is a sample of one search ranking on one date, not a census of pediatric video: videos outside these lists exist but are not counted.

The lists held 577 unique videos from 369 channels, with 3,932,012,293 lifetime views in all, and only 14 videos appeared in two or more lists. 20 of them, 3.5% of the videos and 3.6% of the views, were off-topic and are left out below: a sign franchise's advert with a pediatrician character, comedy sketches, ASMR roleplay, a scripted hospital drama clip, crime and trial coverage in which 'pediatrician' is incidental, a band named The Vaccines, a cat's vaccination, a mantra, and adult-vaccine videos. Off-topic results were concentrated in the 'pediatrician' list, where they were 7.0% of the videos. That leaves 557 on-topic videos with 3,792,379,880 views, and the median one had 1,174,074 views. View counts are lifetime snapshots and include ad views.

59 pediatrician or pediatric practice channels appeared, alongside 66 family or personal uploaders and 28 anonymous baby or NICU clip channels. Baby-care videos show babies, so we publish no channel title, handle, channel id, video id or title for family and anonymous clip channels or for any video whose title or channel names a child: 119 of the on-topic videos and 97 channels appear in our tables only as a class and counts (our count), and they drew 32.2% of the on-topic views. Credentials were not checked; a channel's class rests on what its own text says.

How much of this comes from a few channels?

The ten biggest channels drew 47.1% of the on-topic views in our November 9, 2026 sample, and the three biggest drew 19.8% (our count). The largest was Ms Rachel's toddler learning channel, which drew 6.9% with one video, a learn-to-talk episode with 262,595,142 views that surfaced under 'newborn care'; it is not a pediatrician's channel. Without Ms Rachel, pediatricians and pediatric practices drew 18.2% of the on-topic views, compared with 16.9% with her.

One channel stood out among pediatricians. A single vaccination short from Sayed Mujahid Husain, a consultant pediatrician in India, had 158,008,333 views, 24.6% of the views of the whole class. Without that channel, pediatricians drew 13.3% of the on-topic views. In the 'pediatrician' list one doll-play video from FunFun Toy Doll TV drew 20.8% of that list's on-topic views, more than any pediatrician's channel in the list.

How do the three search lists differ?

Pediatricians drew 26.2% of the views in the 'pediatrician' list in our November 9, 2026 sample but only 11.8% in 'baby vaccines', where family uploads drew 31.0% and children's entertainment 21.6% (our count). In 'newborn care', pediatricians drew 20.2%, family uploads 22.0% and anonymous clip channels 13.4%. These are lifetime views of the on-topic part of each list, so a single very large video can move a whole column.

Where are the pediatric channels based, and do Florida channels appear?

U.S.-placed channels drew 13.5% of the on-topic views in our November 9, 2026 sample (our count, from each channel's country setting or, where that was blank, the place its own text names). Only 9 of the pediatrician and pediatric practice channels were U.S.-placed; they made 8.6% of the on-topic videos and drew 4.0% of the views. Pediatrician channels placed in India drew 12.8% of the views on their own, many of them doctors posting in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and other Indian languages.

Florida barely appears. 3 named channels placed themselves in Florida: South Florida PBS, with a children's series episode; Doctor Beachgem10, a pediatric emergency medicine doctor whose channel gives a St. Petersburg, Florida, mailing address; and Doctor High Yield, a surgery resident at UCF (University of Central Florida) who posts exam reviews. None of them is a pediatrician or pediatric practice, and together they had 4 videos with 16,197,730 views. 2 further channels with Florida text are family channels counted above and not named. 0 on-topic channels placed themselves in Palm Beach, Broward or Martin County, and the sample contains no Florida pediatric practice. WPLG, the Miami-Fort Lauderdale station, appeared only with a crime report and is off-topic. A view-sorted global search will not surface a local practice, so this says nothing about whether Florida practices post video.

What do these videos cover, and how long are they?

Vaccines led: titles naming a vaccine, shot or injection made 34.6% of the on-topic videos in our November 9, 2026 sample and drew 38.4% of the views, partly because 'baby vaccines' is one of the three lists (our count). Titles naming a newborn, infant or NICU made 31.1% of the videos. Feeding and breastfeeding made 7.4%, crying, colic or calming a baby 4.8%, sleep 3.8%, and a child's fever 1.6%. A doctor reacting, rating or debunking made 2.7%, and the word 'pediatrician' or a variant appeared in 28.2% of the titles.

Videos of 60 seconds or less made 51.3% of the on-topic videos and drew 51.1% of the views. Topic counts are regular-expression matches on titles, hashtags included; we read every matching title by hand and corrected the misses.

How many are made for kids, and do any carry YouTube's synthetic-content field?

20 of the on-topic videos in our November 9, 2026 sample carried YouTube's made-for-kids designation and drew 26.0% of the views, mostly nursery rhymes and children's series rather than medical content (our count, from the status part of the YouTube Data API that day). The containsSyntheticMedia field was present on 0 of the 577 videos. An absent field says nothing either way about how a video was made: several of the anonymous clip channels say in their own text that their baby videos are AI-made or AI-recreated, and those channels are counted in the class above and not named.

How often do U.S. pediatrician channels post?

The median U.S.-placed pediatrician channel posted 38 videos in the 365 days to November 9, 2026 (our count, every upload in the window read through the YouTube Data API that day). Together the 9 channels posted 911 videos in that year, and the spread is wide: 3 of them posted one video or none. Dr. Amna Husain posted none; Dr. Josh Arthur and Paul Thomas, whose channel says he retired in December 2022, posted one each. PedsDocTalk was the busiest poster, and Elliston Pediatrics, a New York membership practice, and The Doctors Bjorkman followed. Across all those uploads, the median video had 12,431 views by the read date. St. Louis Children's Hospital, the one U.S. children's hospital in the sample, is listed beside these channels in the published table.

What do studies of pediatric YouTube and TikTok videos find?

Pediatric video is uneven, and in several studies doctors’ videos scored higher but drew less engagement. Across eight peer-reviewed studies published from 2023 to 2026 that counted videos from doctors or other health professionals, the median share was 56.55% (our calculation), and single studies ran from 14.7% to 77.9%. Definitions, platforms and languages differ from study to study, so that median describes these samples only. Every figure in this section comes from the published PubMed abstract, not the full paper.

These scores have limits. Each study is one search, usually of the top-ranked results in one language, scored by the study’s own raters. Scales also disagree on the same topic: a study of neonatal jaundice videos searched on November 1, 2025 reported a median of 5 on both general-quality scales (BMC Pediatrics), while another published the same year found a median guideline completeness of 2.0 of 12 (BMC Pediatrics). Our PubMed search on November 9, 2026 found no content-quality study of infant fever or bronchiolitis video on YouTube or TikTok.

Views mostly did not track quality in the studies that tested it. In a review of 100 circumcision videos on YouTube on August 27, 2021, popularity was negatively correlated with DISCERN quality, at ρ = -0.297 (Journal of Pediatric Urology). In the 2026 study of 150 seizure videos, accuracy and quality were not independently associated with views (Journal of Child Neurology). One exception: the good and excellent breastfeeding videos in the 2021 study had a higher video power index than the poor ones (Breastfeeding Medicine). Vaccine content shows a sharper gap. A study published in 2026 followed 7,213 vaccine-related YouTube videos daily from November 2024 to May 2025: vaccine-hesitant videos drew 2.5-2.6× the interactions per view of strongly pro-vaccine videos and reached 90% of their cumulative views in 18 days against 32, and about 2% of videos were taken down, after engagement had saturated (Journal of Medical Internet Research). That study covers vaccination generally, not childhood vaccines only, and a language model assigned stance with manual checking.

What do parents see, and what do pediatric institutions post?

A large share of parenting video comes from people who do not claim expertise. In a study published in 2025 of 250 top TikTok videos under the five most popular parenting-tip hashtags in September 2022, 52.4% covered health and development, 46.0% were instructional, and only 53.9% of those instructional videos came from a purported expert (Health Promotion Journal of Australia). A study published in 2022 of 3,559 U.S. adults with children in the household (Health Information National Trends Survey, 2017 to 2020) found Asian adults more likely to watch health-related videos on YouTube, at an adjusted odds ratio of 2.82, and Hispanic (2.16) and Non-Hispanic African American (1.83) adults also more likely (Patient Education and Counseling).

In a cross-sectional survey published in 2026 of 98 Latino parents in four U.S. metropolitan areas, 41% said negative social media content directly influenced a decision to delay or refuse the HPV vaccine, rising to 78% among those with HPV-specific negative exposure (Journal of Community Health). Every parent in that sample had an unvaccinated eligible child and used social media, so the figure does not describe parents in general.

Institutions said little during a live controversy. Of 62 pediatric health institutions whose public Instagram accounts were audited from September 22 to November 15, 2025, during the acetaminophen-autism controversy, 19% posted relevant content, and no state health department did (Hospital Pediatrics). The 26 relevant posts had a mean Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of 11.4, 46% featured a named clinician and none were multilingual (Hospital Pediatrics). Of 55,339 posts in 2023 from 82 U.S. children’s hospitals on Facebook, Twitter/X and Instagram, 7.0% covered injury prevention, and most other posts were general publicity or goodwill (Injury Epidemiology). Both audits counted posts of every format, not only video.

Does video teach parents?

Often for knowledge and attitudes, less reliably for behavior. A systematic review published in 2022 of 49 reports on 55 electronic discharge tools in pediatric emergency departments found positive primary outcomes for 80% of tools and no significant difference for 18%; videos were among the most common tools, and unvalidated self-report measures were typical (JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting). The trials below measured mostly knowledge, attitudes or self-reported practice, not health outcomes, and several ran in one centre.

Video used as distraction has a separate evidence base. A 2025 network meta-analysis of 49 randomized trials (4,535 children) found 2D videos reduced preoperative anxiety against standard care, at a standardized mean difference of -1.08, with moderate certainty (JAMA Pediatrics). The videos in that analysis distract the child during care; they do not teach the parent.

How much pediatric care moved to telehealth, and what followed?

In Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2022, telemedicine was used for 42.4% of 782,596 scheduled pediatric primary care appointments (JAMA Health Forum), one integrated system offering video and telephone visits, not a national rate. National measures from 2021 and 2022 count different things, and both are lower. Telemedicine made up 9.5% of ambulatory pediatric encounters in a nationwide insurance claims database in the first quarter of 2021 (Telemedicine Journal and e-Health). In a February 2022 survey of 1,054 U.S. parents with a usual source of care for their children, a weighted 28% reported primary care telemedicine visits (Journal of Medical Internet Research).

The growth went to existing practices. In an insurance claims study of children’s acute-care telemedicine published in 2023, practice-based telemedicine went from 6.6% of visits from January 2018 to February 2020 to 88.2% from March 2020 to September 2021, while telemedicine-only providers went from 90.8% to 6.1% (Academic Pediatrics). In four mid-Atlantic states, telehealth rose from 0.5% of scheduled pediatric ambulatory visits before the pandemic to 19.0% in its first year, across 1,556,548 visits (Public Health Reports).

Downstream use differs by visit type. In the same 2022 Kaiser cohort, medication was prescribed at 39.8% of in-person visits against 29.5% of video and 27.3% of telephone visits after adjustment (JAMA Health Forum). An in-person follow-up within 7 days came after 14.4% of video visits and 15.1% of telephone visits against 4.3% of in-person visits; emergency department visits were 2.04% after video against 1.75% after in-person, and 7-day hospitalizations did not differ significantly (JAMA Health Forum). Among 27,686 commercially insured U.S. children with telemedicine visits for acute respiratory infections in 2022, antibiotics followed 28.9% of visits with a primary care practitioner against 37.2% with direct-to-consumer telemedicine companies (JAMA Network Open).

Use was uneven. In a study of 106,478 children enrolled in Alabama’s CHIP program from March to December 2020, 13.4% had any telehealth use, and Black and Hispanic children and rural residents had lower odds of use (Population Health Management).

Parents reported high satisfaction in a review of surgical subspecialties, shown here as context. A systematic review published in 2024 of 17 U.S. studies (2,926 patients, searched August 20, 2021) put parent satisfaction at 75%-98%, and 57% to 75% of parents said they would choose or prefer virtual appointments in the future (Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare). For well-child care, a systematic review published in 2025 of 20 papers on children under six in high-income countries (search completed July 2023) found effectiveness in 15 studies with no significant differences between control and telehealth groups; none addressed safety and appropriateness, and the authors call the evidence limited (International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances).

How many pediatricians are there in the United States?

The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) counted 116,132 physicians with an active American Board of Pediatrics certificate at U.S. locations on June 30, 2026 (ABMS), but no single figure is the number of pediatricians. Depending on who counts, the answer runs from 39,390 jobs to the certificate count above. Adding diplomates in Canada, the ABMS total is 117,161 (ABMS).

The gaps come from what each source counts. ABMS counts certificates, so it includes retired physicians and pediatric subspecialists, and 12,611 American Board of Pediatrics diplomates also hold a certificate from another ABMS board (ABMS). AAMC reads the AMA Physician Masterfile, which lists physicians by designated specialty and places subspecialties in their own rows, and this static table is dated 2021 (AAMC). AAMC’s 2026 dashboard is interactive, and its key findings page gives no pediatrics count. The American Board of Pediatrics table is narrower still: general pediatricians only, aged 70 or under, currently certified, as of 2018 (American Board of Pediatrics). BLS counts jobs under one occupation code in a survey of employers, so the figure is not a head count of pediatricians (BLS), and the Handbook figure adds the self-employed (BLS).

How many pediatricians are there in Florida and in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties?

In the Florida Department of Health’s physician survey of license renewals from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2025, 4,777 physicians providing direct patient care reported pediatrics as a specialty (Florida Department of Health). Of those, 3,172 reported general pediatrics in the primary care group (Florida Department of Health). The survey counts physicians who renewed and answered, and it leaves out the newly licensed, so it is not a full count of Florida pediatricians.

ABMS counted 5,979 American Board of Pediatrics diplomates located in Florida on June 30, 2026 (ABMS), or 5.1% of those it located in the United States (our calculation). Of those, 5,690 held the general Pediatrics specialty certificate (ABMS). The two counts differ in scope: ABMS includes retired physicians and subspecialists, and the state survey covers respondents only. BLS estimated 700 wage and salary jobs for general pediatricians in Florida in May 2025 (BLS), a much narrower count again.

The state’s 2023 report listed 4,413 physicians with pediatrics as their primary specialty (Florida Department of Health); its survey window differs from the 2025 report, so the change between them is not a clean trend. The American Board of Pediatrics counted 3,036 currently certified general pediatricians aged 70 or under in Florida as of December 31, 2018, the last state table it published as text (American Board of Pediatrics).

How many pediatricians are in training?

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) counted 9,845 active pediatrics residents in academic year 2024-2025 (ACGME), up from 9,419 in 2020-2021 (ACGME), in 217 accredited programs (ACGME). Of those residents, 3,332 were in the first year of a categorical program (ACGME). 24.4% had graduated from an international medical school (ACGME), and 74.8% were female (ACGME).

After residency comes the certifying exam. The American Board of Pediatrics, a certifying board, reported 3,412 first-time takers of the General Pediatrics exam in 2024 (American Board of Pediatrics) and a first-time pass rate of 89% (American Board of Pediatrics), up from 80% in 2022 (American Board of Pediatrics). ABMS reported 3,404 new general Pediatrics certificates in 2025 (ABMS), against 2,891 in 2016 (ABMS).

How do pediatricians practice, and who owns the practices?

In the AMA’s 2024 Physician Practice Benchmark Survey, 38.1% of pediatricians were in a practice wholly owned by physicians (American Medical Association), among the lower shares in its chart of specialties. The AMA is a physician association; the survey was fielded from late August to late September 2024 and is weighted to physicians in patient care.

Published numbers on private equity do not isolate pediatric offices. A 2026 study in Academic Pediatrics (Salazar et al.) found private equity owned 3.5% of U.S. acute care hospitals serving newborns or children in 2021, a share that had risen since 2000 (Academic Pediatrics). Those are hospitals, not pediatric offices. A 2024 Health Affairs study (Abdelhadi et al.) counted 5,779 private equity-acquired physician practice sites across ten specialties in 2021 (Health Affairs); its abstract does not break out pediatrics. PubMed searches on private equity and pediatric practices returned no national share of pediatric offices.

Women are the majority of pediatricians, and close to half were aged 55 or older in 2021. AAMC reported 65.0% of active pediatricians were female as of December 31, 2021 (AAMC), and 47.7% were aged 55 or older (AAMC). Its 2026 dashboard key findings give 67.2% female for 2025, the highest of any specialty listed (AAMC).

The American Academy of Pediatrics, an association of pediatricians, runs the longitudinal Pediatrician Life and Career Experience Study. In that study, 1,696 pediatricians followed from 2013 to 2022 reported a mean of 42.8 total work hours a week (Pediatrics, Cull et al., 2025). Unadjusted mean self-reported income in 2022, for an analytic sample of 1,077 pediatricians, was $237,168 (Pediatrics, Frintner et al., 2024), a different measure from the BLS wage figures. Among 2,353 pediatricians surveyed yearly from 2021 to 2025, burnout fell across the period, and those who changed jobs had adjusted odds of current burnout of 0.27 (Pediatrics, Frintner et al., 2026).

The American Academy of Pediatrics also runs a Periodic Survey of its members. In its 2024 wave (n=471 primary care pediatricians, weighted), 88% named long waits for appointments as a moderate or significant barrier to subspecialty care (Academic Pediatrics, Cull et al., 2026).

A 2023 survey of direct primary care pediatricians found 73 such physicians across 26 states willing to answer (Cureus, Belt et al., 2025). It was recruited through a Facebook group, practice websites and direct outreach, so it describes that small group, not the market.

How much telehealth do pediatric practices use?

Telemedicine made up 6% of children’s problem-based primary care visits in 2024, in electronic records from 1,088 U.S. pediatric and family medicine practices (Pediatrics, Fiks et al., 2026), down from a peak of 55% in April 2020 (Pediatrics, Fiks et al., 2026). The sample includes family medicine practices, so it is not a pediatrics-only figure.

In the AMA’s 2024 survey (n=502 pediatricians), 46.2% of pediatricians reported no video visits in the prior week (American Medical Association), and 4.3% used video for more than 20 percent of weekly visits (American Medical Association).

We found no national count of pediatric practices that publish patient-education video, keep a practice website or advertise on YouTube. PubMed searches on practice websites, social media use by pediatricians and video in pediatric practices returned no such census. What is measured about pediatric video itself is in the evidence section.

What do the federal projections say about supply?

The National Center for Health Workforce Analysis at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) projects a shortage of 9,320 full-time-equivalent pediatricians in 2038 (HRSA). A 2026 analysis of the agency’s projections in Academic Pediatrics (Silvestre et al.) put general pediatrician supply at 62,250 in 2025 and 55,840 in 2037 (Academic Pediatrics). These are model outputs in full-time equivalents, not counts of physicians.

Who pays for children’s care, and how many are on Medicaid or CHIP?

Medicaid and CHIP covered about 34.9 million children (34,894,015) in July 2026, by our sum of the monthly state counts CMS publishes for every state and D.C. (our calculation; CMS labels July 2026 preliminary and revises it later). That is 47.8% of the 72.9 million people (72,946,510) enrolled in the two programs that month (our calculation).

Medicaid held 65.7 million of those people (65,742,057) and CHIP held 7.2 million (7,204,453), so CHIP was 9.9% of combined enrollment (our calculation). Those two figures count all enrollees. CMS’s file gives one combined number for children and does not split it between the programs.

A household survey gives a lower count. KFF, a health-policy analyst, estimates from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey that 28.2 million children ages 0 to 18 (28,191,700) of 75.4 million (75,446,200) had Medicaid or CHIP as their coverage in 2024, or 37.4% (our calculation from KFF’s counts) (KFF). KFF sorts each child into one coverage type, while CMS counts enrollment from state systems, so the two totals do not match and should not be added together.

How many Florida children are on Medicaid or CHIP?

Florida reported 2.28 million children (2,277,992) enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP in July 2026, a preliminary count (CMS). They were 64.0% of the state’s 3.56 million enrollees (3,558,980) (CMS), well above the U.S. share of 47.8% (our calculation).

Medicaid held 3.39 million Floridians (3,390,643) (CMS) and CHIP held 168,337 (CMS), so CHIP was 4.7% of the state’s enrollment (our calculation). Florida ranked number 4 among the states and D.C. by children enrolled, with 6.5% of the U.S. total (our calculation).

KFF’s survey-based estimate for Florida is 1.67 million children (1,670,600) of 4.65 million (4,654,300) in 2024, or 35.9% (our calculation from KFF’s counts) (KFF). The same caution applies: it is an analyst’s survey estimate and not CMS’s enrollment count.

How far has child enrollment fallen since continuous enrollment ended?

Child enrollment fell 19.1% nationally and 26.4% in Florida between March 2023 and July 2026 (our calculation from CMS’s monthly state counts; July 2026 is preliminary). March 2023 was the last month of the pandemic-era continuous enrollment rule, so it is the natural starting point.

Nationally, the count went from 42.3 million children (42,276,078) to 34.2 million (34,188,917) in the same group of jurisdictions (our calculation). Arizona is left out of that comparison, because CMS’s file shows zero children for Arizona in the earlier months, with a footnote that the state was unable to provide the data.

Florida went from 3.09 million children (3,094,306) in March 2023 (CMS) to 2,277,992, after a monthly peak of 3.11 million (3,111,737) in April 2023 (CMS). Among the jurisdictions with both months on file, Florida’s percentage fall ranked number 7, counting from the largest (our calculation).

Enrollment is now below where it stood before the pandemic. Against December 2019, when the same jurisdictions counted 35.3 million children (35,334,592), July 2026 is 3.2% lower (our calculation; Arizona excluded). Florida’s 2.42 million children in December 2019 (2,418,906) (CMS) compare with a July 2026 count 5.8% lower (our calculation).

U.S. enrollment figures and the shares and changes built on them are our sums of CMS’s state rows. The U.S. changes leave out Arizona, which has no child count in the earlier months. EPSDT figures are our calculations from Form CMS-416.

What do EPSDT reports show about screening children?

In federal fiscal year 2024, a little over half of the children who should have had a screening under Medicaid’s child-health benefit got one: the participant ratio was 0.55 nationally and 0.59 in Florida (our calculation from Form CMS-416). EPSDT is the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment benefit. The participant ratio divides children who received at least one initial or periodic screen by children who should have received one.

The screening ratio divides the screens received by the screens expected from each state’s schedule. It was 0.66 nationally and 0.72 in Florida (our calculation). On dental care the order reverses: 46.9% of children eligible for 90 continuous days received any dental service nationally, against 39.3% in Florida (our calculation from Form CMS-416).

FY 2024 was the newest year on CMS’s EPSDT data page when the page was captured in January 2026, and CMS lists that file as updated 08/06/2025 (CMS). We read the ratios from CMS’s file through an archive copy, and our arithmetic returns the same ratios the form prints. CMS generated most state reports in that file from T-MSIS data, Florida’s among them.

How does Florida compare on well-child visits, vaccines and screening?

Florida’s well-care rate for children and young adults ages 3 to 21 was 61.5% in the 2025 Child Core Set, the newest CMS has published, against a median of 52.0% among reporting states, a gap of 9.5 percentage points (our calculation) (CMS). That also clears the top-quartile mark of 58.8% (CMS).

In the first 15 months of life Florida sits 0.1 percentage points below the median, effectively level, but between 15 and 30 months it is 7.2 points above (our calculation). For vaccines by the second birthday, Florida is 7.7 points above the median on Combination 3 and 3.5 points above on measles, mumps and rubella (our calculation). It is below the median on flu shots at that age. On oral evaluations Florida is 7.9 points below (our calculation).

Florida’s rate has moved up with the median. Its well-care rate for ages 3 to 21 was 53.5% in the 2023 Core Set, when the median was 45.3% (CMS), so Florida gained 8.0 points by the 2025 Core Set (our calculation). For 2 or more visits between 15 and 30 months, Florida was at 71.8% in the 2023 Core Set against a median of 64.8% (CMS).

These rates are not a uniform national measurement. States report them to CMS themselves, not every state reports every measure, and the median describes only the states that did. Some rates come from administrative claims alone and others from a hybrid of claims and chart review: Florida’s developmental-screening rate used the hybrid method, while its well-care rates are administrative. CMS publishes each state’s method and comments beside the rate. The Child Core Set lists no telehealth measure, and CMS’s T-MSIS telehealth file covers all ages, so neither shows telehealth use for children alone.

How does well-child use change with age?

Well-child use falls steeply as children grow. In CMS’s analysis of T-MSIS claims for 2022, 51.4% of under-19 Medicaid and CHIP enrollees covered for the full year had a well-child visit paid for by the programs (CMS). The rate was 91.9% for infants under 1 (CMS) and 39.0% for those ages 15 to 18 (CMS). This file is national only, covers a different population from the Core Set, and has no Florida row.

What does Medicare data say about pediatricians?

Very little, and it should not be read as a count of pediatricians. CMS’s Medicare by-provider file lists 1,774 providers of type “Pediatric Medicine” who billed Medicare Part B fee-for-service in 2024 (CMS), down 9.7% from 1,964 in 2019 (our calculation) (CMS).

In Florida the file lists 92 such providers in 2024 (CMS), down 17.1% from 111 in 2019 (our calculation) (CMS). By county, using the Census Bureau’s ZIP-to-county relationships, Palm Beach had 3 in 2024 and 3 in 2019, Broward 1 and 5, and Martin 0 and 0 (our calculation).

Medicare covers few children, so this marginal count undercounts pediatricians. It is a floor for practicing physicians who also bill Medicare fee-for-service, not a pediatrician count, and a county number this small can change with one provider’s address or billing.

How many general pediatricians does BLS count in the U.S.?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated 39,390 wage and salary jobs for general pediatricians (SOC 29-1221) in the U.S. in May 2025, in its Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey of employers (BLS). The estimate has a relative standard error of 4.9% (BLS). General pediatricians have their own BLS occupation code, so the figures in this section are specific to them unless labelled otherwise. OEWS counts jobs reported by employers and leaves out pediatricians who own their practices and take profits rather than a wage.

The Occupational Outlook Handbook, which also counts the self-employed, puts general pediatricians at 42,200 U.S. jobs in 2025 (BLS). BLS’s Employment Projections put the self-employed share of those jobs at 3.8% in 2025 (BLS). The Handbook treats physicians and surgeons as one combined occupation: its lead job count, about 862,800 U.S. jobs in 2025 (BLS), covers the whole group, and general pediatricians appear only as one line in its employment, wage and projections lists. Those pediatrician lines are the figures we use here.

OEWS classifies jobs from what employers report, and BLS’s catch-all occupation “Physicians, all other” (SOC 29-1229) held 342,720 U.S. wage and salary jobs in May 2025 (BLS). BLS does not say how many pediatricians are reported there, so the 29-1221 count should not be read as a headcount of licensed pediatricians.

How many pediatrician jobs are there per 100,000 children?

BLS and Census figures work out to 54.7 OEWS general pediatrician jobs per 100,000 U.S. residents under age 18 in May 2025 (our calculation). The Census Bureau’s Vintage 2025 estimates put U.S. residents under 18 at 72.0 million (72,021,348) on July 1, 2025, our sum of its single-year age estimates, out of a resident population of 341.8 million (341,784,857) (Census). Using the Handbook’s 42,200 jobs instead gives 58.6 per 100,000 (our calculation). Both figures count jobs, not pediatricians in practice, and the OEWS figure leaves out practice owners.

How much do pediatricians earn?

The median annual wage for U.S. wage and salary general pediatricians was $210,040 in May 2025, per BLS OEWS (BLS). That was 4.1 times the $50,980 median for all U.S. occupations (BLS) and 22.5% below the $271,090 median for the broad Physicians group (SOC 29-1210, which does not include surgeons) (BLS) (our calculations). These figures cover wages and salaries only, not practice owners’ profits.

The mean annual wage was $212,110 (BLS). One in ten of these jobs paid less than $91,470 a year in May 2025 (BLS), and one in four paid less than $138,290 (BLS). At the top, one in four paid more than $273,700 (BLS) and one in ten paid more than $338,500 (BLS).

Among the 17 detailed physician and surgeon occupations the Occupational Outlook Handbook lists for May 2025, general pediatricians had the lowest median annual wage. The next lowest was family medicine physicians at $244,180 (BLS), and the highest was pediatric surgeons at $559,030 (BLS). Pediatric surgeons are a separate occupation (SOC 29-1243), shown here only as context; general pediatricians are the group these wage figures describe.

Where do pediatricians work?

Offices of physicians employed 63.8% of U.S. wage and salary general pediatricians in May 2025, per BLS OEWS, and general medical and surgical hospitals employed 24.1% (our calculations).

OEWS does not say why the median wage differs by setting. BLS has no separate industry for pediatric practices: they sit inside offices of physicians, the shared industry in the next section.

How many pediatricians work in Florida, the Miami area and the Port St. Lucie area?

BLS OEWS estimated 700 wage and salary general pediatrician jobs in Florida in May 2025 (BLS), 1.8% of the U.S. count (our calculation). The estimate is rough: its relative standard error is 20.9% (BLS). Florida’s median annual wage was $182,010 (BLS), 13.3% below the U.S. median (our calculation), and its mean was $172,610 (BLS). One in ten of these Florida jobs paid less than $68,590 a year (BLS) and one in ten paid more than $239,990 (BLS). Florida’s location quotient was 0.28 (BLS). A value below 1 means general pediatricians made up a smaller share of wage and salary jobs in Florida than nationally.

Florida had 6.2% of U.S. residents under 18 on July 1, 2025 (our calculation): 4.4 million children (4,442,722), our sum of the Census Bureau’s county age-group estimates, out of 23.5 million residents (23,462,518) (Census). Its 1.8% share of OEWS pediatrician jobs is much smaller. That works out to 15.8 OEWS jobs per 100,000 Florida children, against 54.7 nationally (our calculation). These rates compare BLS job counts, not doctors in practice. Florida’s count is small and uncertain, OEWS leaves out owners of unincorporated practices, and BLS does not say how many Florida pediatricians employers reported under “Physicians, all other.” This should not be read as the number of pediatricians caring for Florida’s children.

BLS estimated 250 wage and salary general pediatrician jobs in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro area in May 2025 (BLS), with a relative standard error of 13.8% (BLS). The median annual wage there was $186,620 (BLS), the mean was $168,860 (BLS), and the location quotient was 0.35 (BLS). Palm Beach and Broward counties sit inside this metro area.

BLS published no May 2025 estimate for general pediatricians in the Port St. Lucie metro area, which holds Martin County: its data service returned no series for this occupation, for any measure, even though the metro area’s all-occupations estimates exist. BLS publishes no OEWS estimates for counties or for metropolitan divisions. OEWS therefore gives no pediatrician count for Palm Beach, Broward or Martin counties.

How fast are pediatrician jobs expected to grow?

BLS projects general pediatrician jobs to grow 1.5% from 2025 to 2035, per its Employment Projections (BLS), compared with 3.6% for the broad Physicians group (BLS) and 3.5% for all occupations (BLS). The Occupational Outlook Handbook puts that at 42,900 U.S. jobs in 2035, up from 42,200 in 2025, a gain of 600 (BLS). BLS expects about 1.0 thousand openings a year from 2025 to 2035, from growth and from replacing workers who leave the occupation (BLS). These projections count all general pediatrician jobs, including the self-employed.

The Handbook says “the expected decline in the child population may constrain demand for pediatricians and pediatric surgeons” (BLS). Census estimates show the number of U.S. residents under 18 fell 2.2% from July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025, from 73.7 million (73,659,947) to 72.0 million (72,021,348). Florida’s rose 3.9% over the same period, from 4.3 million (4,276,629) to 4.4 million (4,442,722) (our calculations from Census estimates). OEWS is not built for year-to-year comparison, so the Employment Projections above are the better guide to direction.

How many physician offices of all specialties are there in the U.S.?

Pediatric practices are counted inside offices of physicians (NAICS 621111), an industry shared with every physician specialty except mental health specialists, so every figure in this section covers all physician offices, not pediatric practices alone. The figures in the section above are the ones specific to pediatricians. Other specialty pages, such as our cardiology video statistics and allergist video statistics, carry the same shared figures.

BLS’s Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), which counts employers covered by unemployment insurance, averaged 226,698 private physician offices of all specialties in the U.S. in 2025 (BLS). Those offices averaged 2.9 million jobs (2,904,306) in 2025 (BLS), counting all staff and not only physicians, and average annual pay was $116,597 (BLS).

The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns counted 204,617 U.S. employer physician offices of all specialties in 2023, the newest year available when we checked (Census). Census’s Nonemployer Statistics counted 190,427 U.S. physician-office businesses with no paid staff in 2024 (Census), with receipts of $19,101,964 thousand, about $19.1 billion (Census). Those two counts cover different years and different kinds of business, so we do not add them. A nonemployer is any business with no paid employees, which can include part-time or side income, so that count is not a count of full-time practices.

How many physician-office businesses of all specialties had no paid staff in 2023?

Nonemployer businesses made up 47.7% of U.S. physician-office businesses of all specialties in 2023, and 46.8% in Florida (our calculations). Those shares set Census’s 2023 Nonemployer Statistics, which counted 186,842 such businesses in the U.S. (Census) and 17,603 in Florida (Census), beside its 2023 County Business Patterns, so both inputs come from one year. A nonemployer can be side or consulting income, so this is a share of businesses on paper, not of full-time practices. Neither count separates pediatric practices.

How many physician offices of all specialties are there in Florida and in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties?

Florida averaged 21,918 private physician offices of all specialties (NAICS 621111) in 2025, per BLS’s QCEW (BLS), 9.7% of the 2025 U.S. total (our calculation). Together Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties averaged 4,556 private physician offices of all specialties in 2025, 20.8% of Florida’s total (our calculation from QCEW annual averages).

Average pay covers all staff in these offices, not only physicians. Census’s newest Nonemployer Statistics, for 2024, counted receipts of $2,041,927 thousand, about $2.0 billion, for Florida physician-office businesses with no paid staff (Census). The table below sets the Census counts side by side. The two columns come from different years and different kinds of business, so we do not add them. Neither BLS nor Census publishes a county count of pediatric practices.

How much revenue do physician offices of all specialties report, and is there a pediatric line?

U.S. employer offices of physicians of all specialties (NAICS 621111) had receipts of $630,209,309 thousand (about $630 billion) in 2022, per the 2022 Economic Census, the Census Bureau’s full count of businesses every five years (Census). The Economic Census has no pediatric line: its product lines split patient-care receipts by the ICD-10 chapter of the primary diagnosis, and none of those lines names pediatrics.

The closest line is “Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (infant) (P00-P96),” which brought in $4,074,167 thousand (about $4.1 billion) in 2022 (Census), or 0.6% of the receipts of all physician offices (Census). It is a diagnosis chapter, not a specialty line, so it is not a pediatric figure.

How many physician offices of all specialties earn money from telemedicine?

86,466 U.S. employer offices of physicians of all specialties (NAICS 621111) reported some revenue from telemedicine services in 2022, per the 2022 Economic Census (Census): 42.9% of such offices (our calculation). The table counts offices with any telemedicine revenue. It does not say how much of their revenue came from it, and it does not break out pediatrics.

How much do physician offices of all specialties spend on advertising?

U.S. offices of physicians of all specialties (NAICS 6211) spent $1,815,721 thousand, about $1.8 billion, on advertising and promotion in 2024, per the Census Bureau’s Annual Integrated Economic Survey (Census). That was 0.28% of their total 2024 operating expenses (our calculation). It is a sample estimate. Census does not publish advertising spending for pediatric practices or for NAICS 621111 on its own.

How many U.S. and Florida kindergartners are vaccinated?

In the 2025-26 school year, 92.4% of U.S. kindergartners had MMR coverage and 88.9% of Florida kindergartners did, according to CDC's SchoolVaxView (CDC) (CDC). The Florida figure is 3.5 percentage points below the national one (our calculation). SchoolVaxView is built from the figures that states and the District of Columbia report to CDC each year, and collection methods differ by state. The 2025-26 national MMR estimate covers about 3.7 million children enrolled in kindergarten (3,692,432) (CDC). Florida's covers 213,535 (CDC), which is 5.8% of that national enrollment (our calculation).

Florida's line needs a caution. CDC's file prints the same percentage for MMR, DTaP, polio, hepatitis B and varicella in Florida and marks each with a “≥” sign, which the file's footnotes do not define. In 2021-22 that figure, 91.7% for MMR (CDC), equaled the 91.7% of kindergartners that Florida's Department of Health reported as holding a certificate for all vaccines required for school entry (Florida DOH). The Florida line therefore reads as an all-required-vaccines figure while the national line is vaccine-specific, so the gap between them is approximate.

DTaP coverage was 92.0% nationally (CDC) and 88.9% in Florida (CDC) in 2025-26. CDC's SchoolVaxView page, dated Aug. 17, 2026 and read here in a copy archived Oct. 22, 2026, said about 280,000 U.S. kindergartners attended school without documentation of completing the MMR series (CDC) and that 24 states reported kindergarten exemptions above 5% (CDC).

Exemptions rose over the same period. In 2025-26, 4.2% of U.S. kindergartners had an exemption from one or more vaccines, up from 3.6% in 2024-25 and 2.5% in 2019-20 (CDC) (CDC) (CDC), a rise of 1.7 percentage points since 2019-20 (our calculation). A non-medical exemption accounted for 4.0% of U.S. kindergartners (CDC). In Florida, 5.9% of kindergartners, or 12,540 children, had an exemption in 2025-26 (CDC), against 5.1% in 2024-25 and 3.4% in 2019-20 (CDC) (CDC). Florida's 2025-26 rate is 1.7 percentage points above the U.S. rate and 2.5 points above its own 2019-20 rate (our calculation).

How has kindergarten MMR coverage changed since 2019-20?

MMR coverage among kindergartners fell in both the United States and Florida between the 2019-20 and 2025-26 school years, by CDC's SchoolVaxView. The U.S. figure went from 95.2% to 92.4%, 2.8 percentage points lower, and Florida's went from 93.5% to 88.9%, 4.6 points lower (our calculation). Florida's low in this series was 88.1% in 2023-24 (CDC). Florida was 1.7 percentage points below the U.S. figure in 2019-20 and 3.5 points below it in 2025-26 (our calculation).

How many U.S. toddlers are vaccinated by 24 months?

In CDC's National Immunization Survey-Child, 69.0% of U.S. children born in 2022 had completed the combined seven-vaccine series by 24 months of age, and 91.4% had at least one MMR dose (CDC) (CDC). Birth year 2022 is the newest single-year cohort in CDC's data file as read on Nov. 9, 2026, and the U.S. estimate rests on a sample of 9,780 children (CDC). NIS-Child is a mobile phone survey that measures children at a set age. SchoolVaxView measures them at school entry, so the two series are not comparable.

Florida's one-year sample is small, 203 children (CDC), so its confidence intervals are wide and the state-versus-nation differences in this table should be read with care. For children born in 2021 and 2022 combined, the same survey found 92.0% of Florida children had at least one MMR dose and 72.5% had completed the combined series by 24 months (CDC) (CDC).

How do Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties compare?

The newest county table we could read from Florida's Department of Health is for the 2021-22 school year. It shows 91.7% of Broward kindergartners, 89.5% in Palm Beach County and 90.5% in Martin County holding a certificate for all vaccines required for school entry, against 91.7% statewide (Florida DOH). Palm Beach was 2.2 and Martin 1.2 percentage points below the state (our calculation). The measure counts public and private kindergartens and all required vaccines together, so it is not an MMR-only rate.

We could not read the Department of Health’s own county table for any school year after 2021-22, so the county figures above stop there.

How do U.S. children use health care?

Most U.S. children see a clinician in a given year. In the 2025 National Health Interview Survey, 94.7% of children under 18 had a doctor visit for any reason in the past 12 months, 93.1% had a well-child check-up and 96.4% had a usual place of health care (NCHS) (NCHS) (NCHS). The 2019 well-child figure was 93.8% (NCHS). In the same survey, 5.4% of children were uninsured at the time of interview in 2025, against 5.1% in 2019 (NCHS) (NCHS). Well-child check-ups differed by coverage in 2025: 95.8% of children with private insurance had one, against 61.5% of uninsured children, an estimate with a wide confidence interval (NCHS).

The National Survey of Children's Health asks parents a different set of questions. In a December 2025 HRSA data brief on the 2022-2023 survey, 39.3% of children and youth with special health care needs met the survey's definition of receiving care in a medical home, against 47.4% of children without those needs (HRSA). In the same brief, 74.2% of children with special needs and 62.5% of those without received preventive care, measured by receipt of preventive medical and dental care (HRSA). The newest figure for all children we could read is from 2017-2018, when 48.2% of U.S. children ages 0-17 had a medical home (HRSA). Newer all-children tables sit in the survey's query site, childhealthdata.org, which bars AI agents in its robots file, so they are not used here, and we found no children's telehealth figure on a source we could read.

Office-visit counts come from a different survey and an older year. In the 2019 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, patients under 15 made about 117.9 million physician office visits (117,917 thousand), which was 11.4% of all office visits, or 194.8 visits per 100 children that age (NCHS). Those visits were to physicians of every specialty. The 2018 and 2019 summary tables do not print pediatrics as its own row. Pediatricians sit inside primary care, which received 50.3% of all office visits in 2019 (NCHS), a figure for all ages.

How many U.S. children are born, and how many measles cases does CDC report?

NCHS counted about 3.6 million U.S. births in 2024 (3,628,934) in its final data (NCHS), of which 224,389 were to Florida residents (NCHS). Provisional estimates put the U.S. general fertility rate at 52.7 births per 1,000 women ages 15-44 for 2026 Q2 (NCHS). NCHS's FastStats page listed 20,050 U.S. infant deaths for 2024 (NCHS). Its provisional infant mortality rate for the 12 months ending 2026 Q1 was 5.31 deaths per 1,000 births (NCHS).

CDC's measles page, updated Nov. 6, 2026 and read here in a copy archived Nov. 7, 2026, reported 5,182 confirmed U.S. measles cases in 2026 as of Nov. 5, 2026, after 2,289 for the full year of 2025 and 285 for 2024 (CDC). The 2026 count so far is 2.26 times the 2025 total (our calculation). CDC's weekly notifiable disease data listed 142 provisional indigenous measles cases in Florida for 2026 through MMWR week 43 (CDC). Those weekly counts are revised and do not share the national page's as-of date.

What do vaccine makers report selling for children?

Pfizer reported $6,494 million in worldwide Prevnar family revenue in 2025, children and adults combined, the largest line in the table below (Pfizer 10-K). Every figure is the company’s own reported sales for the line named, from its annual report on EDGAR. Lines are not built the same way: Prevnar includes adult doses, Gardasil is given to adolescents and adults, Sanofi reports in euros and GSK in pounds.

Pfizer does not split Prevnar into pediatric and adult sales. U.S. revenue was $4,151 million in 2025 (Pfizer 10-K), 63.9% of the worldwide total (our calculation). Pfizer attributes lower pediatric sales worldwide mostly to the timing of CDC shipments in the U.S., plus lower shipments and competition in certain other markets (Pfizer 10-K).

Gardasil fell from $8,583 million to $5,233 million, a decline Merck ties mainly to lower demand in China and in Japan, and it says U.S. sales rose on net pricing and CDC purchasing patterns (Merck 10-K). Merck’s U.S. sales of ProQuad, M-M-R II and Varivax were $1,885 million in 2025 (Merck 10-K), or 76.9% of the worldwide total for those three (our calculation). Merck says a large component of its pediatric and adolescent vaccine sales goes to the CDC Vaccines for Children program, which the U.S. government funds (Merck 10-K).

Sanofi’s U.S. Beyfortus sales were €723 million in 2025 (Sanofi 20-F), 40.6% of the worldwide total (our calculation). Sanofi attributes the U.S. decline to a high base effect and inventory at the start of the season. It says Beyfortus was 22.4% of its 2025 vaccines net sales and that it faces competition from another monoclonal antibody (Sanofi 20-F). Merck launched its own infant RSV antibody, Enflonsia, in 2025. Sanofi says U.S. sales of Vaxelis, which it sells with Merck, go through a joint venture and are not reported separately in either partner’s net sales (Sanofi 20-F). None of the reports we read names Synagis, the older RSV antibody.

What do vaccine makers say about falling U.S. vaccination and policy change?

Merck’s fiscal 2025 annual report, filed February 24, 2026, gives the most detail of the vaccine makers here, because several of the changes touch its products. These are Merck’s descriptions on that date, not a current reading of CDC’s schedule. Merck reports that in September 2025 the ACIP voted to recommend chickenpox vaccine as a standalone shot for children under four rather than combined with measles, mumps and rubella (Merck 10-K). It says the CDC in December 2025 ended the universal birth-dose recommendation for hepatitis B, adopting an ACIP recommendation (Merck 10-K). And it says the acting CDC director in January 2026 announced changes to the child and adolescent schedule that reduced the number of routinely recommended vaccinations and created three new categories (Merck 10-K).

Merck says that January announcement is the subject of litigation by third parties (Merck 10-K), and that it reduced the recommended HPV vaccination of adolescents to a single dose (Merck 10-K). Merck says it is the only manufacturer in the U.S. of ProQuad and Varivax, and it expects no material effect from the 2025 recommendation change on ProQuad sales (Merck 10-K). It reports that the insurers’ trade group AHIP said member plans would keep covering immunizations recommended by the ACIP as of September 1, 2025, with no cost-sharing through the end of 2026 (Merck 10-K).

The reports show lower U.S. demand in places, and none gives a figure for U.S. childhood vaccination rates. Merck says worldwide ProQuad sales grew 1% in 2025, with lower U.S. sales reflecting lower demand (Merck 10-K), and that Varivax sales fell 6%, mainly on lower U.S. sales from lower demand and CDC stockpile activity (Merck 10-K). GSK ties growth in its older measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccines to outbreaks and Infanrix and Pediarix growth to CDC stockpile replenishments, offset by lower U.S. demand and pricing for hepatitis vaccines (GSK 20-F).

Risk language differs by company. Pfizer says coverage in programs including Medicaid can depend on committees such as the ACIP and that changes in the recommendations or structure of those committees may affect use of its vaccines (Pfizer fiscal 2025 10-K). In a passage about its COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty, it warns of a possible continuous decline in vaccination rates from further recommendation changes (Pfizer fiscal 2025 10-K). Sanofi says rapidly shifting U.S. federal vaccine policies drive uncertainty, citing changes to ACIP membership and scepticism toward existing immunization frameworks (Sanofi fiscal 2025 20-F). In its flu vaccine discussion, it says anti-vaccine policies could further erode confidence in vaccines, especially in the U.S. (Sanofi fiscal 2025 20-F). GSK names vaccine hesitancy as a risk to immunisation efforts (GSK fiscal 2025 20-F). Moderna says changing CDC and ACIP recommendations may continue to affect demand for its COVID and RSV vaccines, the only products it has approved (Moderna fiscal 2025 10-K).

What do vaccine makers disclose about advertising and video?

Pfizer reported advertising expenses of approximately $2.7 billion in 2025, company-wide (Pfizer 10-K). Merck recorded $2.3 billion in advertising and promotion (Merck 10-K), GSK £738 million in advertising (GSK 20-F) and Moderna $133 million (Moderna 10-K). None of the four breaks out vaccine advertising, and Sanofi gives no advertising figure in its 20-F.

Video barely appears. 2 of the 5 reports use the word “video” at all, for a board video conference at Sanofi and an employee library of videos at Moderna (our calculation), and 1 names YouTube, Pfizer’s list of social channels for investors (our calculation). GSK says U.S. oversight of direct-to-consumer drug advertising has increased, along with scrutiny of social media influencers and direct-to-consumer telehealth companies (GSK fiscal 2025 20-F). These counts measure words in annual reports, so a missing word does not mean a company makes no videos.

What does Pediatrix disclose, and who else sells into pediatric care?

Pediatrix Medical Group, a Sunrise, Florida company, reported 2025 net revenue of about $1.91 billion ($1,913,849 thousand) (Pediatrix 10-K). It sells physician services, and it says its network had approximately 2,295 affiliated physicians at December 31, 2025, in 37 states (Pediatrix 10-K). 1,350 of them provide neonatal care, mostly in hospital intensive care units (Pediatrix 10-K), or 58.8% of the total (our calculation), and 220 provide hospital-based pediatric care (Pediatrix 10-K).

In 2024 Pediatrix decided to exit almost all of its affiliated office-based practices other than maternal-fetal medicine (Pediatrix 10-K), so it is a hospital-based subspecialty company, not a general pediatric office group. In our EDGAR searches we found no public company whose main business is general pediatric office care.

Florida is one of Pediatrix’s five largest states, but the 10-K gives no Florida share. About 64% of 2025 net revenue came from those five states: Texas, Florida, Georgia, California and Washington (Pediatrix 10-K). Texas alone accounted for approximately 32% (Pediatrix 10-K). Government payors, principally Medicaid, were 24% of net revenue, excluding administrative fees (Pediatrix 10-K). Pediatrix says that in Florida more than 75% of the Medicaid population is in a Managed Medicaid Plan, with even higher participation for children (Pediatrix 10-K).

Aveanna Healthcare sells home nursing and therapy, not office care. It reported $2.0 billion ($2,001,147 thousand) in Private Duty Services revenue for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2026 (Aveanna 10-K), and it says its private duty nursing patients typically “enter our service as children,” with children’s hospitals as its main referral source (Aveanna 10-K).

Do Teladoc and Amwell report pediatric telehealth?

No. Teladoc’s and Amwell’s fiscal 2025 annual reports contain 0 uses of the words “pediatric,” “pediatrician” or “child” (our calculation). Their visit counts cover all patients. Teladoc Health says it completed 17.1 million telehealth visits in 2025 (Teladoc 10-K), and Amwell reported about 4.5 million visits on its platform (4,535,000) (Amwell 10-K).

How often do annual reports name pediatricians?

18 Form 10-K annual reports filed in 2025 contained “pediatrician” or “pediatricians,” by our count with SEC EDGAR full-text search (our calculation; one count per filing). From 2001 to 2025, 598 such filings came from 156 distinct registrants, the largest yearly count was 33, reached in 2006, 2008 and 2010, and 23 more were filed in 2026 through November 9 (our calculation). 15 of the 18 from 2025 came from drug, device, lab or health-services filers (our calculation). The yearly counts, filer names and query URLs are in our EDGAR counts file.

Full-text search has limits. It covers filings from 2001 on and counts Form 10-Ks only, so Sanofi and GSK, which file Form 20-F, are outside it, as are private practices and hospitals. It leaves out 10-K/A amendments and the older 10-K405 form, and it does no stemming, so “pediatric,” “pediatrics” and “videos” are separate terms. Filing year 2025 mostly means fiscal 2024 reports. The count measures a word, not a business.

2 of the 18 filings from 2025 also contained “video,” and 69 of the 598 did from 2001 to 2025, or 11.5% (our calculation). We read all 12 filings from 2022 through November 9, 2026 that contain both words, the first three mentions of “video” in each (our calculation; see the contexts file).

• 2 describe marketing video, both from Vivos Therapeutics, a dental sleep-apnea device company whose fiscal 2022 report says its direct-to-patient marketing will include online video (Vivos 10-K).
• 2 describe video made to recruit clinical-trial participants. Verrica Pharmaceuticals, a dermatology drug company, recorded $30,000 of expense for that video production in 2022 (Verrica 10-K).
• 1 describes patient education by video, a genetic-testing company’s video-based education (Sema4).
• 7 use the word for something else: a device or clinical feature (Natus), a video game (Akili and BiomX), or a telehealth line in an insurance exhibit (Booz Allen Hamilton).

None comes from a pediatric practice, and none describes video aimed at pediatricians or parents. Across all years, 0 filings pair a pediatrician word with the exact phrases “educational video,” “training video,” “marketing video,” “instructional video” or “promotional video,” or with the word “webinar” (our calculation). 3 pair it with “YouTube” (our calculation): MMRGlobal’s two lists of social channels and Loop Media’s fiscal 2020 report, which names children’s videos for pediatricians’ offices as an example of what its venue customers want (Loop Media 10-K).

Which rules apply to a pediatric practice that publishes video?

As of November 9, 2026, a Florida pediatric practice that publishes video answers to the Board of Medicine’s advertising rule, HIPAA, the FTC’s endorsement and review rules and, where it collects information from children online, COPPA, while FDA’s drug advertising rules are written for those who market vaccines. This section reports what each rule says on the date it was read. It is not legal advice.

What does Florida’s school-entry immunization rule say on November 9, 2026?

On November 9, 2026, Florida law requires immunization against the diseases named in section 1003.22 and, by Department of Health rule, against hepatitis B, varicella, Hib and pneumococcal disease, and a 2026 proposal to drop those rule-based requirements has not been adopted. The 2026 Florida Statutes name poliomyelitis, diphtheria, rubeola, rubella, pertussis, mumps, tetanus and other diseases the department sets by rule (Florida Statutes 1003.22(3)).

The department’s Rule 64D-3.046 supplies the rest. The state’s rules site lists its latest adopted version as effective 4/2/2013 (Florida Administrative Rules), and that version incorporates Immunization Guidelines dated March 2013 (Rule 64D-3.046(2)(b)). The department’s own page, read on November 9, 2026, still lists 3 doses of Hep B and 2 doses of varicella for kindergarten through 12th grade, and Hib and pneumococcal conjugate for child care and preschool entry (Florida Department of Health).

A parent may object in writing on grounds of “religious tenets or practices” (Florida Statutes 1003.22(5)(a)). The statute as read has no separate conscience or personal-belief exemption. It does let the department determine that a required immunization is “unnecessary or hazardous” (Florida Statutes 1003.22(5)(d)), and it lets a school official issue a temporary exemption of up to 30 school days for a student who transfers into a new county (Florida Statutes 1003.22(5)(e)).

The rulemaking has moved through these published steps:

The department said the hearing “does not constitute final adoption of the rule” (Florida Department of Health). Under the proposal, hepatitis B, varicella, haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines would no longer be required for school and child care entry, while the diseases named in the statute stay (Florida Department of Health).

The split follows the law. Those vaccines are required only by rule, so a rule change can remove them. The diseases named in section 1003.22 would take an act of the Legislature. SB 1756, which would have added a conscience exemption, ended as “Died in Messages” on March 13, 2026 (Florida Senate), and its special-session successor SB 6-D ended as “Died in Rules” on April 30, 2026 (Florida Senate).

An adopted rule takes effect 20 days after being filed with the Department of State, or on a later date set in the notice or by statute (Florida Statutes 120.54). If a petition challenges a proposed rule, the window to file it for adoption runs to 60 days after the administrative law judge files the final order (Florida Statutes 120.54). The Florida Administrative Register issues read through November 9, 2026 show no filing for adoption, so a statement about Florida’s requirements needs a date.

What is the status of the federal childhood vaccine schedule in late 2026?

As of its latest capture on October 26, 2026, CDC’s provider page still shows the schedule labelled “Addendum updated July 2, 2025” (CDC, via Internet Archive). A Florida Senate staff analysis dated April 24, 2026 says the CDC announced changes on January 5, 2026 that would have reduced the number of recommended vaccinations (Florida Senate staff analysis). On March 16, 2026, a federal judge in Massachusetts, in a suit brought by the American Academy of Pediatrics and others, ruled that “The Court STAYS the January 2026 Memo” (U.S. District Court, D. Mass.). A stay pauses a change while a case continues; it does not decide the case.

Executive Order 14420 of August 10, 2026 lists “immunizations recommended for all children” (Federal Register) and puts hepatitis B among “immunizations based on shared clinical decision-making” and, for some children, high-risk groups (Federal Register). The order says earlier directives have been “delayed due to litigation” (Federal Register) and that “States and territories are advised” to review their school requirements (Federal Register). An executive order is not a CDC schedule and does not change Florida’s statute.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, an association that sells membership and education to pediatricians, publishes its own schedule for the United States, 2026 (American Academy of Pediatrics). Because these documents differ, the word “recommended” in a practice’s video depends on which document it names and on what date.

When does a child’s video need HIPAA authorization, and who signs?

In the text read on November 9, 2026, HIPAA treats a parent or guardian with authority over an unemancipated minor as that child’s personal representative (45 CFR 164.502(g)), so a parent or guardian signs when a practice must obtain an authorization, and the form must carry a description of such representative's authority (45 CFR 164.508). The exceptions matter for older children: for care a minor lawfully consents to alone, “the minor has the authority to act as an individual” (45 CFR 164.502(g)(3)(i)).

HIPAA’s de-identification rule lists “Full face photographic images” and any comparable images among the identifiers (45 CFR 164.514), so a video that shows a child’s face is identifiable health information. For the lowest penalty tier, where the entity did not know and could not have known of the violation, the HHS table, as read November 9, 2026, sets a maximum of $73,011 per violation (45 CFR 102.3). Complete P.T., Pool & Land Physical Therapy, a Los Angeles-area practice and not a pediatric one, agreed in 2016 to pay $25,000 after posting patient testimonials with full names and full-face photos without valid authorizations (HHS Office for Civil Rights).

Florida adds two rules of its own. Consent to use a minor’s name or likeness for trade or advertising is given “by the guardian of her or his person or by either parent” (Florida Statutes 540.08(6)), and a practitioner needs written parental consent before treating a minor (Florida Statutes 1014.06). Consent to treatment and authorization for a video are separate.

What do Florida’s Board of Medicine and telehealth rules say?

As read in the 2026 Florida Statutes, the physician statute lists “False, deceptive, or misleading advertising” as grounds for discipline (Florida Statutes 458.331), with fines up to $10,000 per count. The Board’s rule treats an ad as false, deceptive or misleading if it creates false or “unjustified expectations of beneficial assistance” (Florida rule 64B8-11.001), and the Board requires a retained copy of a video ad for six months. Florida’s telehealth statute covers “synchronous or asynchronous” technology, so live video visits and store-and-forward review both count (Florida Statutes 456.47).

What do the FTC’s endorsement, review and children’s privacy rules say?

The FTC’s rule on consumer reviews and testimonials took effect on October 21, 2024 (Federal Register), and the most the agency can seek for a knowing violation of a trade regulation rule, which includes that rule and COPPA, rose to $53,088 per violation in its January 17, 2025 adjustment (Federal Register). The Endorsement Guides say endorsements in ads addressed to children may be of “special concern” because of the character of the audience (16 CFR 255.6).

The amended COPPA Rule took effect on June 23, 2025 (Federal Register), and most operators had until April 22, 2026 to comply (Federal Register). Its definition of personal information includes “A photograph, video, or audio file where such file contains a child's image or voice” (16 CFR 312.2). COPPA applies to operators of sites and services directed to children, or those with actual knowledge that they are collecting from a child under 13.

What do FDA and federal vaccine injury rules require, and what do the numbers show?

As read on November 9, 2026, FDA’s prescription drug advertising rule requires the major side effects and contraindications in broadcast ads in the “audio or audio and visual parts” of the presentation, and HHS’s penalty table sets a first-violation maximum of $377,701 for a false or misleading direct-to-consumer ad (45 CFR 102.3). These duties are written for prescription drug advertising; whether a particular practice video counts as drug advertising is a legal question this page does not answer.

HRSA’s National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program report, updated September 1, 2026, says over 30,196 petitions have been filed since 1988 (HRSA, via Internet Archive), and that 13,382 of the petitions adjudicated were determined to be compensable (HRSA, via Internet Archive). Total compensation paid over the life of the program is approximately $5.6 billion (HRSA, via Internet Archive). VAERS, run by CDC and FDA, calls itself a “passive reporting system” and says it is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused a health problem (VAERS).

What do YouTube’s medical and child safety policies say?

YouTube’s medical misinformation policy, as read on November 9, 2026, bars content with claims that “contradict health authority guidance” on the safety, efficacy or ingredients of currently approved and administered vaccines (YouTube Help). Its child safety policy defines a minor as someone “under 18 years old” (YouTube Help). To qualify for YouTube’s health features, a licensed professional’s or organization’s channel must have more than 1,500 valid public watch hours in the last 12 months, or 1.5 million valid public Shorts views in the past 90 days (YouTube Help). YouTube says some videos on health topics carry an “information panel” under the video giving context on the source (YouTube Help). Federal vaccine guidance changed during 2025-26, so what YouTube counts as health authority guidance is not fixed.

What do the popular pediatric numbers really say?

In CDC’s newest count, for 2022, one in 31 children aged 8 years had identified autism across 16 surveillance sites (CDC MMWR, archived). That figure and the others below are repeated widely, and the repeats can drop the age, the place or the measure. We traced six of them to the study, agency or vendor that produced them and read what each one measured. Pages that repeat a number are linked only as dated evidence of how it spread, never as a source for the number itself.

“1 in 36 children has autism”

The phrase comes from CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network. Its March 2023 report put prevalence at 27.6 per 1,000, or one in 36, among children aged 8 years in 2020 across 11 sites (CDC MMWR, archived). Its April 2025 report replaced that with 32.2 per 1,000, or one in 31, among children aged 8 in 2022 across 16 sites, from 9.7 in Laredo, Texas, to 53.1 in California (CDC MMWR, archived).

What it measured: 8-year-olds in selected areas, counted from records. The 2025 report’s first stated limitation is that its surveillance areas are not nationally representative and do not generate nationally representative estimates (CDC MMWR, archived). A child counts through a documented diagnostic statement, autism special education eligibility or an autism ICD code. In the 2022 data, all three were present for 34.6% of the 8,613 children counted at the 15 sites that completed record abstraction (CDC MMWR, archived).

Reports for other years are left out of this table. The method moved during the series. ADDM adopted a new case definition for the 2018 surveillance year; the earlier one relied on written descriptions of symptoms in evaluations, and could count children with no formal identification or exclude children with a diagnosis and thin records (CDC MMWR, archived). Applied to older data, the new definition gave about the same prevalence for 2014 and 7% lower for 2016 (CDC MMWR, archived). The sites changed too. From 2018 to 2020 the two largest relative rises, Missouri at 48.5% and Wisconsin at 49.5%, came at sites with increased access to education records (CDC MMWR, archived).

CDC’s data page later added the age. As captured on April 15, 2025, it said about 1 in 36 children has been identified with autism, naming no age in that sentence (CDC, archived). As captured on October 30, 2026, it says about 1 in 31 (3.2%) children aged 8 years (CDC, archived). The closest national measure is a parent survey: the 2020 and 2021 National Survey of Children’s Health estimated 2.9%, from parents reporting what a health professional told them (CDC MMWR, archived). Use instead: “Among children aged 8 years in 2022, one in 31 had identified autism across 16 ADDM sites, from CDC’s record review; those sites are not nationally representative.”

“Vaccines cause autism”

The best-known source of this claim is a 1998 paper in The Lancet by Wakefield and colleagues, which described 12 children referred to one pediatric gastroenterology unit in London (The Lancet, PubMed record, archived). Parents linked the onset of behavioral symptoms with MMR vaccination in eight of the 12 (The Lancet, PubMed record, archived). The abstract concluded that the condition was generally associated in time with possible environmental triggers (The Lancet, PubMed record, archived). It describes no comparison of vaccinated with unvaccinated children.

In 2004, 10 of the 12 co-authors retracted the paper’s interpretation (Indian Journal of Psychiatry, archived), saying “no causal link was established between MMR vaccine and autism as the data were insufficient” (Indian Journal of Psychiatry, archived); that wording comes from a 2011 editorial quoting their letter. The Lancet’s editors retracted the whole paper in a notice published online on February 2, 2010, and indexed in the issue of 2010 Feb 6 (The Lancet, PubMed record, archived), writing “we fully retract this paper from the published record” (The Lancet notice, copy). The reason they gave followed a General Medical Council panel’s judgment of January 28, 2010: the claims that children were “consecutively referred” and that the investigations had local ethics committee approval had been proven false (The Lancet notice, copy).

The large studies compared diagnoses in vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Madsen and colleagues followed 537,303 children born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998; the adjusted relative risk of autistic disorder was 0.92 (95 percent confidence interval, 0.68 to 1.24) (New England Journal of Medicine, PubMed record, archived). Hviid and colleagues followed 657,461 children born in Denmark from 1999 through 2010 (Annals of Internal Medicine, PubMed record, archived). The fully adjusted autism hazard ratio was 0.93 (95% CI, 0.85 to 1.02) (Annals of Internal Medicine, PubMed record, archived), and the authors wrote that the study “strongly supports” that MMR vaccination does not increase the risk for autism (Annals of Internal Medicine, PubMed record, archived). In a 2015 study of 95,727 privately insured U.S. children with older siblings, Jain and colleagues found MMR receipt was not associated with increased risk at any age, including among children whose older sibling had autism (JAMA, PubMed record, archived). A 2014 meta-analysis by Taylor and colleagues pooled five cohort studies of 1,256,407 children and found no relationship between vaccination and autism; it also examined MMR, thimerosal and mercury separately (Vaccine, PubMed record, archived).

CDC’s web page has changed. As captured on November 5, 2025, it said studies have shown there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing autism spectrum disorder (CDC, archived). A version dated November 19, 2025 says the claim that vaccines do not cause autism is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism (CDC, archived). It directs that at the infant vaccines DTaP, HepB, Hib, IPV, and PCV (CDC, archived). The Danish and U.S. cohort studies above tested MMR. The heading “Vaccines do not cause autism” stayed on the page with an asterisk, and the footnote said it remained because of an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (CDC, archived). The version dated July 22, 2026, which we read on November 9, 2026 through a capture of November 2, keeps that text and replaces the footnote with one saying scientists have not identified the root causes of autism (CDC, archived). Use instead: “A 1998 paper on 12 children, in which parents linked symptoms to MMR vaccination, was retracted by The Lancet in 2010. In Danish registry studies of 537,303 and 657,461 children, MMR vaccination was not associated with increased autism risk. As of November 9, 2026, CDC’s page says studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”

“Video on a landing page lifts conversions by 80%”

The figure is a best case from one video vendor, EyeView, about client websites, not pediatric care. EyeView’s blog reported in December 2008 that eToro visitors who watched its video were 20% more likely to download the product (EyeView, archived). In February 2009 it said UMOO viewers were 80% more likely to become depositing users, comparing viewers with non-viewers for one client (EyeView, archived). By August 2010 Unbounce, a landing-page software seller, wrote that video on landing pages can increase conversion by 80% (Unbounce, archived).

The larger later evidence points the other way. Unbounce’s own 2021 analysis of about 35,000 customer landing pages in each of three periods (Unbounce) concluded that video appears to have a minimal or negative impact on landing-page performance (Unbounce). We searched pediatric practice marketing for the figure and found no test by a pediatric practice and no pediatric repeater. Use instead: “Unbounce’s 2021 study of about 35,000 landing pages per period found video had a minimal or negative effect; we found no conversion test by a pediatric practice.”

“1 in 5 children has a mental health disorder”

The earliest form we found is the 1999 Surgeon General’s report on mental health, citing the MECA study (Shaffer and colleagues, 1996), which we did not open. It said almost 21 percent of U.S. children ages 9 to 17 had a diagnosable mental or addictive disorder with at least minimum impairment, a six-month measure (Surgeon General, archived). That was the widest of its estimates: requiring significant functional impairment cut it to 11 percent (Surgeon General, archived). A June 2000 American Family Physician summary then dropped the age range: “About 20 percent of young persons” in any given year, and about 5 percent with extreme functional impairment (American Family Physician, archived).

CDC later printed it two ways. Its 2013 surveillance report gave a range, 13%–20% of U.S. children with a mental disorder in a given year (CDC MMWR, archived). Its 2022 report said approximately one in five children and adolescents, crediting earlier surveillance and research rather than a new measurement (CDC MMWR, archived). A different measure gives a similar number. In a nationally representative survey of 10,123 U.S. adolescents aged 13 to 18, published in 2010, Merikangas and colleagues reported a lifetime prevalence of 22.2% for disorders with severe impairment or distress (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, PubMed record, archived). NIMH’s statistics page words that figure as 22.2% of adolescents with any mental disorder, a different base from the paper’s (NIMH, archived). Use instead: “In the MECA study cited by the 1999 Surgeon General’s report, almost 21 percent of U.S. children aged 9 to 17 had a disorder with at least minimum impairment, and 11 percent had significant functional impairment.”

“The AAP says no screens under 2”

The American Academy of Pediatrics, the pediatricians’ association, has changed this wording. Its 2011 policy statement quotes its 1999 recommendation that “pediatricians should urge parents to avoid television viewing for children under the age of two years” (AAP, archived), and says that line was “frequently misquoted” by media outlets as no media exposure (AAP, archived). Its 2016 statement told pediatricians to discourage screen media other than video-chatting for children younger than 18 months (AAP, archived).

The 2026 statement frames it differently. It says media and children cannot be viewed solely through the lens of individual child behaviors or screen limits alone (Pediatrics, PubMed record, archived). It also says infants do not learn from digital media, but that occasionally viewing brief, high-quality videos is not detrimental (AAP author manuscript, archived). Our children’s video page compares current screen guidance across health bodies. Use instead: “AAP’s 1999 statement urged avoiding television under age two years; its 2016 statement discouraged screen media other than video-chatting under 18 months; its 2026 statement says occasional brief, high-quality video is not detrimental for infants.”

“Pediatricians are the most trusted source on vaccines”

This one holds in the survey behind it. In the KFF/Washington Post Survey of Parents, 85% of parents said they trust their child’s pediatrician a great deal or a fair amount for reliable vaccine information, ahead of their local public health department at 64%, the CDC at 59% and the FDA at 55% (KFF, archived). KFF is a health policy nonprofit. The survey was fielded online from July 18 to August 4, 2025, among 2,716 parents of children under 18 on a probability-based panel. At the stronger level, 43% trust their child’s pediatrician “a great deal”, and every other source drew 15% or fewer (KFF, archived). The finding is about stated trust in 2025 among parents, not what they then did. Use instead: “In a 2025 KFF/Washington Post survey of 2,716 parents, 85% trusted their child’s pediatrician for vaccine information.”

A seventh widely repeated pediatric number, about how much of a child’s brain develops by age 5, is traced in full on our child care center video page.

Every popular claim our research pages trace, 853 in all, is on one page: popular video statistics, fact-checked.

How we built this page

We started from the questions people search for about pediatrician video statistics and looked for the organization that actually produced each answer. Every figure on this page sits in an evidence ledger with its source, the exact table or paragraph it came from, the measurement period, the population measured, and the date we checked it. This edition holds 678 figures from 85 publishers.

On November 9, 2026, each sourced figure on this page was re-fetched with the fetch cache cleared and matched against the recorded wording: BLS occupation wage estimates and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (through the BLS data API and data files) and Employment Projections and Occupational Outlook pages (through Internet Archive copies, because bls.gov refuses automated requests); Census County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics, population estimates, the 2022 Economic Census and the Annual Integrated Economic Survey (through the Census data API); CMS datasets through data.medicaid.gov and data.cms.gov; CDC data through data.cdc.gov; CDC, HRSA, Florida Department of Health and other pages through Internet Archive copies where the live page refuses scripts; American Board of Medical Specialties, ACGME, AMA, KFF and American Board of Pediatrics pages; the Florida Statutes, Florida Administrative Code and Register, eCFR, the Federal Register and govinfo.gov; SEC filings on EDGAR; journal abstracts (PubMed abstracts re-read through NCBI’s E-utilities, because the pages answer scripts with a bot check); and the pages behind each popular claim. Our YouTube figures come from the YouTube Data API, our Medicaid and CHIP sums from CMS’s state rows and our filing counts from EDGAR full-text search. We left out sources whose robots rules bar AI agents, among them The Lancet’s site, CMAJ, childhealthdata.org, healthychildren.org and CDC WONDER (journal papers appear through their PubMed abstracts), congress.gov (public laws are cited from govinfo.gov) and ftc.gov pages, which answer scripts with an error page (FTC rules are cited from eCFR and the Federal Register). We also left out the National Resident Matching Program’s Main Match tables, because the publication’s rights notice bars use of its data with AI tools without NRMP’s written consent, and two news reports of newer county vaccination rates, because we could not reach the Florida Department of Health’s own table.

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Limitations

• Pediatrician counts differ by source. Board certificate counts include retired physicians and subspecialists; the American Academy of Pediatrics counts its members; BLS counts wage and salary jobs and, in the Handbook, the self-employed; Florida’s survey counts physicians who report pediatrics at license renewal. We print them side by side rather than pick one.
• BLS publishes little local data for pediatricians. Florida’s employment estimate has a relative standard error of about 21%, the Port St. Lucie area has no series and OEWS has no county estimates. The per-child comparison divides job counts by children and is not a count of practicing pediatricians.
• Physician-office figures are not pediatric-practice figures. BLS and Census count pediatric practices inside offices of physicians (NAICS 621111), shared with every other specialty, and each such figure is labelled.
• Medicare is a poor window on pediatrics. Medicare covers few children, so the ‘Pediatric Medicine’ provider counts are a marginal figure, not a count of pediatricians.
• Medicaid and CHIP figures have gaps. July 2026 enrollment is preliminary. CMS shows no child enrollment for Arizona from December 2019 through April 2024, so changes since then cover 49 states and D.C. States report Child Core Set measures in different ways, and the printed U.S. figure is a median of reporting states.
• Vaccination figures measure different things. SchoolVaxView counts kindergartners with documentation, and CDC’s Florida rows carry an undefined “≥” flag and print one figure for every vaccine, so the Florida-versus-U.S. MMR gap is approximate. The National Immunization Survey estimates for Florida rest on a sample of 203 children. Florida’s county table stops at the 2021-22 school year in what we could read.
• Our YouTube read follows YouTube’s ranking. The 577 videos are what YouTube’s search returned for three terms (the top 200 results of each, sorted by views, with no country filter) on November 9, 2026. It is not a census of pediatric video, view counts are lifetime snapshots, and we sorted 369 channels by hand from their public text without checking credentials. Baby-care videos show babies, so family and anonymous clip channels, and any video that names a child, are published only as a class and counts.
• Study results come from specific settings. Each content study sampled one topic on one date and defined “health professional” its own way. Many trials are small and single-center, and most measure knowledge or stated behavior instead of children’s health. We found no national count of pediatric practices that use video.
• Rules and pages are dated. Vaccine policy and CDC’s web pages changed repeatedly in 2025-26, and Florida’s rulemaking was still open on the day we read it. Each such statement carries its date. Association and company figures are their own, and each is labelled. Every “earliest we found” in the origins section rests on web pages, press, PubMed and the Internet Archive; newspaper databases were not searched.

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15. Journal of Asthma (Akca Sumengen et al.), Pediatric asthma inhaler technique: quality and content analysis of YouTube videos. (2024-08-13). Accessed 2026-11-09.
16. Medicine (Xiaohui et al.), Quality of Douyin videos on childhood asthma: A cross-sectional content analysis. (2026-10-23). Accessed 2026-11-09.
17. Appetite (Azak et al.), Evaluation of YouTube videos on complementary feeding: Content quality and reliability analysis. (2023-07-04). Accessed 2026-11-09.
18. Journal of Child Neurology (De Faria Sousa et al.), Pediatric Seizure First-Aid Content on Social Media: Accuracy, Educational Quality, and Engagement Across Platforms. (2026-08-07). Accessed 2026-11-09.
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22. The National Medical Journal of India (Iqbal et al.), Quality and reliability of YouTube videos on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A cross-sectional study. (2026). Accessed 2026-11-09.
23. Digital Health (Yu et al.), Evaluating the quality, reliability, and diagnostic risk of ADHD content on TikTok and Bilibili: A cross-sectional content analysis. (2026-03-24). Accessed 2026-11-09.
24. JMIR Formative Research (Testart Aguirre et al.), Child and Adolescent Mental Health Misinformation on TikTok: Cross-Sectional Mixed Methods Study. (2026-10-15). Accessed 2026-11-09.
25. Turkish Archives of Pediatrics (Elmas et al.), Celiac Disease in Children and YouTube: Do the Videos Contain Accurate Information? (2025-01-02). Accessed 2026-11-09.
26. Frontiers in Medicine (Zhu et al.), Popularity versus quality in TikTok educational videos on congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction. (2026-02-02). Accessed 2026-11-09.
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