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 longer treated...

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 substantial...

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, continuous safety...