On  Jan. 5 , Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC announced the largest rollback of the U.S. childhood immunization recommendations in decades, cutting the number of vaccines routinely recommended for all children from 17 to 11. The new policy moves several longstanding shots into a category where use is left to “shared clinical decision-making” or reserved for children judged to be at high risk.   In practice, that means these vaccines are no

On Jan. 5, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an announcement  altering the nation’s childhood immunization guidelines. These revised recommendations reduce the number of vaccines recommended for all children from 17 to 11, removing universal recommendations for important and widely administered vaccines that protect against influenza, meningitis, and Hepatitis A and B. Against expert analysis and in the absence of safety issues, the shift generated

Jan. 5, 2026 (Washington, D.C.)  The Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease (PFID) released the following statement in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changing the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule:   “Today’s changes to the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule mark another disturbing step backward in infectious disease prevention and federal public health leadership. America has devoted decades of epidemiologic surveillance, clinical trials, continuo

On Dec. 9, the Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease (PFID) hosted a webinar featuring physician leaders who have served in both medical and public office to discuss how doctors, pharmacists, and public health leaders can help Americans navigate evolving vaccine guidance. The conversation focused on medically grounded information, the urgency to preserve access and options, and reinforcement of credible sources to keep constituents healthy. The discussion featured: Dr. Jero

As the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) holds its final 2025 meeting (Dec. 4–5), medical societies, public health organizations, and patient advocates sounded alarms about the direction of the committee’s decisions. More than 12,000 people and organizations submitted written comments  ahead of the meeting but less than 4,000 were publicly published before the sessions began. Many comments raised concerns about topics on the agenda, how ACIP decisions

Credible public health guidance considers transparent, reproducible, and rigorously peer-reviewed evidence. Decades of empirical data and high-quality studies have shown no connection between vaccines and autism diagnoses, reinforced again this summer by a 24-year analysis of 1.2 million children showing no association with 50 chronic conditions, including autism. But the long-debunked myth persists, and a new publication that used flawed methods to reach a misleading conclus