China 0-6y Child Vaccine Schedule — Personalized Calendar from Birthdate · 2021 National Immunization Program

Real-world use cases

• Get the full 0-6y calendar the day you bring the baby home

  Your baby was born 2026-05-26. You are exhausted and the green booklet has 30+ rows you have not read. Enter the birth date, the tool prints every dose date through 2032-05. Hepatitis B #2 is due 2026-06-26, BCG is already done at discharge so tick it off, polio #1 is due 2026-07-26. Save the calendar to your phone. You stop guessing for the next six years.

• Plan paid 二类 vaccines on a real family budget

  A young Chinese family on a 12k/month combined income wants to know what the paid-vaccine bill looks like over three years. The tool lists each second-tier vaccine with typical unit price and dose count: PCV13 ≈ ¥3,200 (4 doses), EV71 ≈ ¥350 (2 doses), rotavirus ≈ ¥900 (3 doses), varicella ≈ ¥400 (2 doses), pentavalent if used ≈ ¥3,000 (4 doses). Pick which ones to take, see the running total, schedule cash flow accordingly.

• Reconcile a catch-up schedule for a baby moving from a smaller city

  A 9-month-old whose family just moved from a smaller city where Hib was not consistently offered. Tick which doses were given (the booklet stamp on each row). The tool flags missing Hib doses, proposes the catch-up timing, and shows which dates can be combined with already-scheduled doses to minimize clinic trips.

• Sanity-check a clinic recommendation before agreeing on the spot

  The community clinic doctor says "you might want HPV for your 9-year-old daughter". Pull up the schedule, check the HPV row: 9-valent is approved 9-45 years in China, 2-dose regimen for under-15, 3-dose for 15+. Plan whether to start at 9 or wait until 11 for a lower likelihood of fainting on the chair. Walk back into the consult with a real plan.

• Generate a printable schedule for the grandparents

  Grandparents are co-caring and need a paper calendar (the green booklet alone is not enough — they want to see dates, not weeks-since-birth). Print the schedule from the tool; they get a one-page calendar of "Month X — vaccine Y — clinic visit". Cross out each row as it is done. The fridge gets one schedule everyone can read.

Common pitfalls

• Treating flu shot as blanket-immunity. The flu vaccine only protects against influenza A/B; it does not cover RSV, adenovirus, hand-foot-mouth, COVID, or even other respiratory illnesses. Get it every year because the antigen drifts.

• Skipping a dose because the baby was mildly congested. Mild cold without fever is not a contraindication. The contraindications are fever ≥ 37.5°C, acute illness, known severe protein/egg allergy, immune deficiency. When in doubt the on-site doctor assesses; do not self-skip.

• Assuming "imported is automatically better". For most single-antigen vaccines (HepB, varicella) domestic and imported are equivalent in efficacy and safety. The real difference is in combination products (pentavalent, hexavalent) where imported leads; and acellular pertussis vs whole-cell. Cost differential is 3-10x.

• Forgetting that paid 二类 vaccines are not "luxury" — rotavirus, PCV13, EV71, varicella, flu all protect against very common illnesses. Skipping them to save money often turns into hospital visits later. Triage by family budget, not by "free vs paid".

• Trying to do all doses in one visit to save trips. Most combo limits are 4 jabs per visit, and some vaccines (live + live attenuated) must be spaced 4 weeks apart. Trust the schedule the tool generates; do not pile.

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