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"We're not taking vaccines away from anybody," said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sidelined six routine vaccines from its schedule for children. The flu vaccine is now recommended only for children at high risk of serious illness or after a consultation between doctors and parents, "which is how it ought to be," he said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing the number of vaccines it recommends for children, officials said Monday, a major shift that official say will bring the U.S. closer to other developed countries. The move, which is effective immediately, fulfills a longtime goal of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other vaccine skeptics who have questioned the number and…

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…