Trump orders overhaul of U.S. vaccine schedules [View all]

Source: Axios

11 hours ago


President Trump ordered his top health officials Friday night to review all U.S. childhood vaccination recommendations and align them with the "best practices" from other developed countries.

Why it matters: It's a vote of confidence in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s handpicked advisory panel on vaccines, which voted earlier Friday to to drop the decades-old federal recommendation that all infants receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.

The Centers for Disease Control panel "made a very good decision to END their Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendation for babies, the vast majority of whom are at NO RISK of Hepatitis B," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

The big picture: Kennedy and his allies have gained the power to pursue sweeping changes in U.S. vaccine policies, driven by their embrace of discredited theories about vaccines' link to autism and other diseases.

What's inside: Trump's memorandum orders Kennedy and the CDC director to "review best practices from peer, developed countries for core childhood vaccination recommendations — vaccines recommended for all children — and the scientific evidence that informs those best practices."

If they determine that other countries' practices are better, Trump ordered them to "update the United States core childhood vaccine schedule to align with such scientific evidence and best practices from peer, developed countries while preserving access to vaccines currently available to Americans."

Kennedy responded in an X post: "Thank you, Mr. President. We're on it."

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/12/06/trump-overhaul-rfk-jr-vaccine-schedules

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The CDC has now been completely destroyed. The cluelessness with the assertion that the CDC hasn't already, since its inception, worked internationally (including with WHO, which this idiotic administration has ditched), and adopted promising and proven practices based on foreign research publications and policies, is proof of their residing in their own psychotic universe, spewing certifiable psychobabble.