“We are aligning the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule with international consensus while strengthening transparency and informed consent,” Kennedy said in a statement. Medical associations and public health advocates and experts condemned the revisions to the vaccine schedule, arguing they endanger children and are built on faulty assumptions. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe revised schedule will result in fewer doses and fewer vaccines being given in the U.S., according to industry and public health experts. Racine said the AAP will continue to publish its own childhood vaccine guidance, maintaining the routine recommendations scrapped by the Trump administration. President Donald Trump in early December ordered the review of the childhood immunization schedule to align with other countries, calling the U.S. an “outlier” that recommends far more shots than necessary.

Source: Washington Post January 05, 2026 20:14 UTC