US Reduces Number of Vaccines It Recommends for All Children
January 13, 2026
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as posted by the channelRobert F Kennedy Jr.’s Health and Human Services Department is changing vaccinations for your child.
Federal health officials reduced the number of vaccines recommended for all children from 17 to 11 last week.
This change to the vaccine schedule is the culmination of months of efforts by Kennedy, who has a long record of anti-vaccine activism, to alter the way vaccines are approved and recommended.
According to NPR, officials said that the revision was made without formal public comment or response from vaccine makers, evading the usual process in which bodies like the CDC’s ACIP evaluate changes. Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, told NPR that the decision “will sow further doubt and confusion among parents and put children’s lives at risk.”
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