On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) formally adopted a revised childhood and adolescent immunization schedule following a presidential directive from Donald Trump, marking the most significant rollback of universal childhood vaccine recommendations in modern U.S. history.
Under the revised schedule, only 11 diseases are now covered by vaccines recommended for all children.
COVID-19, influenza, hepatitis A and B, rotavirus, and meningococcal vaccines are no longer universally recommended and instead fall under shared clinical decision-making or high-risk categories.
The move raises a fundamental question about vaccination itself: how confidently can the safety and long-term benefit of any vaccine be trusted when the evidence supporting routine use remains subject to ongoing revision?
Vaccines have been linked to more than 2.7 million injuries, hospitalizations, and deaths since 1990.
The change follows a December Presidential Memorandum ordering the Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC to examine childhood vaccination schedules used by peer developed nations and to revise U.S. policy if superior approaches existed abroad.
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