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However the presence of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services attests that some families have suffered ill effects from vaccinations. (link- )
Families with a personal connection to someone affected may tend to more wary than a family with no such personal anecdote.
You have a point, but unfortunately, your point can also lead to fears about vaccinating if people don't have the correct information.
For example, that site says that roughly 2 billion doses of vaccines were administered in the US between 2006 and the present time. In that same period, ~4,000 petitions were filed at the VICP and ~1,400 were compensated.
Even if you use the larger number (petitions filed), the rate of serious injury was only 1 in 500,000 doses. If you use the claims that were compensated, it goes to about 1 in 1.4 million. Either way, vaccines are pretty safe. Especially when you compare to paralytic polio happening to 10% of people with that disease or neurlogical complications of measles (seizures, encephalomyelitis, or SSPE) in up to 2+% of cases. My sister ended up in a measles-induced coma before there was a vaccine. It happens, and it can be serious. As in, she's probably lucky to have survived it.
So I'll take the one-in-more-than-a-million risk. And so should anyone who's paying attention. But again, this is an area where people are susceptible to misinformation and where they often don't realize what's happening.
But again, this is an area where people are susceptible to misinformation and where they often don't realize what's happening.