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The US has a new vaccine schedule. Now what?
Monday’s move by the Department of Health and Human Services — political appointees of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — to unilaterally rewrite the list of vaccines recommended for all American children broke new ground.
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The CDC recently released a new child vaccine schedule and it no longer recommends a number of childhood vaccines that were previously recommended. Despite this,
As part of the new schedule, HHS will no longer broadly recommend influenza, COVID-19, rotavirus, and other previously recommended immunizations. It now recommends 11 vaccines for all children, down from previously recommending vaccinations to protect against 18 different diseases in 2024.
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The recent decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to reduce the number of recommended vaccines for children has sparked concern among pediatricians. The