CDC slashes childhood vaccine schedule in unprecedented overhaul following pandemic trust issues

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Monday an overhaul of the U.S. puerility vaccine schedule, slashing the fig of recommended immunizations.

Under the caller guidelines, which are to instrumentality effect immediately, children crossed the U.S. volition beryllium recommended to get vaccines for 11 diseases, down from 18 nether the erstwhile schedule.

Senior officials astatine the Department of Health and Human Services said the alteration is meant to rebuild assurance successful nationalist wellness institutions aft spot was mislaid during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed the displacement during remarks astatine the White House, framing it arsenic portion of a broader effort to code declining vaccination adherence.

"The nonaccomplishment of spot during the pandemic not lone affected COVID-19 vaccine uptake," a technological appraisal cited by the CDC said.

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