https://apnews.com/article/childhood-vaccine-schedule-trump-rfk-hhs-9b8df9e2767c1261aaac4e2331e77fa3The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of cutting the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — a move that leading medical groups said would undermine protections against a half-dozen diseases.The change is effective immediately, meaning that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will now recommend that all children get vaccinated against 11 diseases. What’s no longer broadly recommended is protection against flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis or RSV. Instead, protections against those diseases are only recommended for certain groups deemed high risk, or when doctors recommend them in what’s called “shared decision-making.”Trump administration officials said the overhaul, a move long sought by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., won’t result in families who want the vaccines losing access to them, and said insurance will continue to pay. But medical experts said the decision creates confusion for parents and could increase preventable diseases.States, not the federal government, have the authority to require vaccinations for schoolchildren. While CDC requirements often influence those state regulations, some states have begun creating their own alliances to counter the Trump administration’s guidance on vaccines.The change comes as U.S. vaccination rates have been slipping and the share of children with exemptions has reached an all-time high, according to federal data. At the same time, rates of diseases that can be protected against with vaccines, such as measles and whooping cough, are rising across the country.Review came at the request of President Trump
>>1472223The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the overhaul was in response to a request from President Donald Trump in December. Trump asked the agency to review how peer nations approach vaccine recommendations and consider revising U.S. guidance accordingly.HHS said its comparison to 20 peer nations found that the U.S. was an “outlier” in both the number of vaccinations and the number of doses it recommended to all children. Officials with the agency framed the change as a way to increase public trust by recommending only the most important vaccinations for children to receive.“This decision protects children, respects families, and rebuilds trust in public health,” Kennedy said in a statement Monday.Trump, reacting to the news on his Truth Social platform, said the new schedule is “far more reasonable” and “finally aligns the United States with other Developed Nations around the World.”Among those left on the recommended-for-everyone list are vaccines against measles, whooping cough, polio, tetanus, chickenpox and human papillomavirus, or HPV. The guidance reduces the number of recommended vaccine doses against HPV from two or three shots depending on age to one for most children.Medical experts said Monday’s changes without what they said was public discussion or a transparent review of the data would put children at risk.“Abandoning recommendations for vaccines that prevent influenza, hepatitis and rotavirus, and changing the recommendation for HPV without a public process to weigh the risks and benefits, will lead to more hospitalizations and preventable deaths among American children,” said Michael Osterholm of the Vaccine Integrity Project, based at the University of Minnesota.Dr. Sean O’Leary of the American Academy of Pediatrics said countries carefully consider vaccine recommendations based on levels of disease in their populations and their health systems.
>>1472224“You can’t just copy and paste public health and that’s what they seem to be doing here,” said O’Leary. “Literally children’s health and children’s lives are at stake.”Most high-income countries recommend vaccinations against a dozen to 15 serious pathogens, according to a recent review by the Vaccine Integrity Project, a group that works to safeguard vaccine use.France today recommends all children get vaccinated against 14 diseases, compared to the 11 that the U.S. now will recommend for every child under the new schedule.Doctors’ groups criticize decisionThe changes were made by political appointees, without any evidence that the current recommendations were harming children, O’Leary said. The pediatricians’ group has issued its own childhood vaccine schedule that its members are following, and it continues to broadly recommend vaccines that the Trump administration demoted.O’Leary singled out the flu vaccine, which the government and leading medical experts have long urged for nearly everyone starting at age 6 months. He said the government is “pretty tone deaf” for ending its recommendation while the country is at the beginning of a severe flu season, and after 280 children died from flu last winter, the most since 2009.Even a disease that parents may not have heard of, rotavirus, could come roaring back if vaccination erodes, he added. That diarrheal disease once hospitalized thousands of children each winter, something that no longer happens.The decision was made without input from an advisory committee that typically consults on the vaccine schedule, said senior officials at HHS. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the changes publicly.The officials added that the new recommendations were a collaborative effort between federal health agencies but wouldn’t specify who was consulted.
>>1472225Scientists at the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases were asked to present to the agency’s political leadership about vaccine schedules in other countries in December, but they were not allowed to give any recommendations and were not aware of any decisions about vaccine schedule changes, said Abby Tighe, executive director of the National Public Health Coalition, an advocacy organization of current and former CDC employees and their supporters. “Changes of this magnitude require careful review, expert and public input, and clear scientific justification. That level of rigor and transparency was not part of this decision,” said Dr. Sandra Fryhofer, of the American Medical Association. “The scientific evidence remains unchanged, and the AMA supports continued access to childhood immunizations recommended by national medical specialty societies.”Kennedy is a longtime vaccine skepticThe move comes as Kennedy, a longtime activist against vaccines, has repeatedly used his authority in government to translate his skepticism about the shots into national guidance.In May, Kennedy announced the CDC would no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women — a move immediately questioned by public health experts who saw no new data to justify the change.In June, Kennedy fired an entire 17-member CDC vaccine advisory committee — later installing several of his own replacements, including multiple vaccine skeptics.Kennedy in November also personally directed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism, without supplying any new evidence to support the change.-END OF STORY-The full, unedited Epstein files is an important part of a balanced breakfast.
>>1472226Just need to make sure Kennedy and every anti vaxxer loses any legal and civil immunity so they can be jailed or sued into finical ruined when the deaths inevitably pile up.
>ApnewsLooks like they're reducing the number of vaccines and keeping the core ones that affects infantsFor example, getting vaxxed for hep B isn't really necessary unless at high risk i.e. mother is a carrier. At which point it's left to doctor-patient interaction
Based. Vaxxtards in shambles
>>1472241>For example, getting vaxxed for hep B isn't really necessary unless at high risk i.e. mother is a carrier. At which point it's left to doctor-patient interactionThe problem being you can be asymptomatic with hepatitis for fucking months.Also, they took shit like "flu" off the list, jackass.
>>1472276People are about to learn these recommendations were there for a fucking reason. They weren't determined randomly, they were written in blood.
>>1472277Infect yourself with hep b then, fag.
>>1472280Sorry I'm not an unvaccinated infant.
>>1472244>Based. Vaxxtards in shamblesTHIS!Let darwinism rule and all the dimmies who die from preventable diseases like this anon will produce less low iq children
>>1472282Found the vaxxtard. Don't forget your monkeypox shot, vaxxie KWAB
>>1472235Have you seen or heard RFK recently? I don’t think he’s going to live long enough to see Trump get impeached
>>1472285>just one more impeachment, xisters. Trust the plan
esl shill really can't go a day without referencing his fetish can he
>>1472283Get your shot plague rat.You're type disgust me, The unwashef type
>>1472296No thanks, Im not cattle. Go get your booster lil bro
I for one can't wait for diphtheria to make a comeback. Looking at all the historical records where every third death in some locations was from that disease just doesn't hit the same as watching people choke to death on thick, grey mucus in real time on social media.
Republicans, not satisfied with destroying the birth rate, are now trying to pump up child mortality, I see.
>>1472224>This decision protects childreni'm sure he'll ban circumcision of infants, too, since he cares so much about protecting children :^)especially since circumcision hasn't even been shown to be that effective at preventing infections, and has a higher rate of risk than any of these vaccines
>>1472280I'm not q maga faggot. I can't get hep retard.
vaxcattle are clotting up over this kek. Careful vaxxie, wouldn't want your myocarditis acting up
>>1472235if ur not a doctor you should stfu and listen to the experts. you know those nasel sprays? kids who grew up using them now have the nostrils of a lifelong cocaine addict. the pharma agency doesn't care about victims they just want to be paid.its a recommendation removal not a ban you imbred.
>>1472392True. A lot of science denying libs itt. Trust the experts at the HHS.
1472282>Fewer ESL sill
>>1472392>>1472415All the real doctors are pro-vaccine, all the anti science shills like you want children to get sick and die.
>>1472437Sorry, chud. The science is settled. No one's listening to your conspiracy theories anymore.
>>1472437Are they pro vaccine by the old definition of vaccine, or the new definition of vaccine?https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article254111268.html
they were mad at everyone pointing out white genocide was made up so they decided to do it themselves
>>1472439They will not allow you to graduate medical school if you don't worship at the altar of vaccines and big pharma
esl shill is pretending to be knowledgeable of med school requisites, LOL
>>1472530>They won't even let you graduate med school if you fundamentally ignore modern medical science
>>1472437funny how leftists were anti vaccine during trump omg its a rushed covid vaccine he's using people as human labrats!!! then the moment biden took office a week later its suddenly omg vaccines are goodNo i want YOUR kids to get sick and die because you breed filth. Its not a ban its just making it not a recommendation by default.Yes yes crowd immunity and all that buzz, but you should happy get ur vaccines and if you're right everyone besides you dies in a few generations from now. If ur right you just killed your kid's cognitive ability but given who you are there probably wasn't much to kill
>>1472550god you're esl
>>1472537Found the vaxcattle
>>1472583see >>1472551
>>1472537Can you believe some medical schools require you to perform an abortion if you want to be a pediatrician?It's like you have to kill babies if you want to be a doctor who heals babies.
>>1472223>turns
>>1472640>God can you believe they require you to demonstrate your ability to do a medical procedure a pediatrician has to know to be a pediatrician
>>1472683Why do child doctors need to learn how to kill children and perform circumcision?
>>1472705Hey anon what is the treatment for an ectopic pregnancy? Go on, tell the class.
>>1472710It's not abortion. It's surgery.No, they are not the same thing. Yes, you are retarded.
>>1472712>It's not abortion, it's just surgery that involves going in and removing the fetus after terminating the pregnancy>THEY'RE DIFFERENTI think it's funny you argue this but demonstratably the law considers them the same thing.
>>1472715>it's just surgery that involves going in and removing the fetus-You are actually retarded.Ectopic pregnancies require specialized surgeons because they are stuck in the fallopian tube. Abortions can be conducted by visiting a clinic and taking a pill. These aren't even remotely the same thing. Stop conflating medical emergencies with your desire to avoid consequences for acting like a whore.
>>1472712he's retarded, but more importantly he's very proud of it
>>1472723>Abortions can be conducted by visiting a clinic and taking a pill.Yes that is one type of abortion. There are also others that don't involve a pill you retard.BTW, treatment for ectopic pregnancies are considered abortions in anti-abortion states and are forbidden under law until the very last moment before they would kill the patient.>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/texas-abortion-ectopic-pregnancy-investigationYou cannot argue against this.
What are babies given STD vaccines like hep again?
>>1472789In case a lib molests them. Very common problem
15 years ago, I used to argue against "anti-vaxxers" and call them all sorts of namesNone of my kids have gotten a single vaccineYou guys fucked up by lying too many times for too many years and no one believes you anymore
