Salon.com“Meant to confuse”: Public health advocates slam RFK Jr.’s vaccine schedule changes
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Childhood vaccine schedules among U.S. peers differ marginally. Unlike the U.S., however, peer health officials don't sow doubt among the public about vaccination.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention upended the childhood vaccine schedule Monday, reducing the number of recommended shots for kids. Effective immediately, the agency will recommend only vaccines for 11 diseases, down from 17. The shots for the other six diseases will be recommended for “high risk” children only, or under a framework called “shared decision making” based…
By unilaterally gutting the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have replaced decades of successful evidence-based public health policy with ideology, conspiracy thinking, and medical malpractice. This is not reform. It is vandalism. Without meaningful consultation with pediatricians, public health officials, or the Advisory […]