In a segment this morning on ABC-News Good Morning America, a government report revealed that some vaccines may be stored improperly and therefore less effective — see it and read it here.

It quotes numerous docs and officials including those from the Center for Disease Control. The vaccines — even if stored improperly — are not harmful, but may not offer the substantial protection parents expect of immunizations. Doctors quoted in the report suggest that parents ask their doctors about storage of vaccines and expiration dates.

Pam Parker is an award-winning writer and editor for Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times and House to Home at the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa.