CDC, vaccine schedule
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is updating the childhood vaccine schedule after a request from the Trump administration.
The new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18, including Covid, previously on the schedule.
Mandated vaccinations for children attending school will remain in place, said New York State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald. Federal officials have removed some shots.
The Department of Health and Human Services has updated the childhood immunization schedule to recommend 10, rather than 17, shots for kids.
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to improve children’s health. But his sweeping changes to the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule will do the opposite, health experts warn.