US overhauls childhood vaccine schedule

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday an unprecedented overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule that recommends fewer shots to all children.

Under the change — effective immediately — the vaccine schedule will more closely resemble Denmark’s, recommending all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18 previously on the schedule.

Senior Health and Human Services officials said the changes are meant to restore trust in public health that spilled over from the Covid pandemic. 

“The loss of trust during the pandemic not only affected the COVID-19 vaccine uptake. It also contributed to less adherence to the full CDC childhood immunization schedule, with lower rates of consensus vaccines such as measles, rubella, pertussis, and polio,” reads the scientific assessment the agency based its decision on. 

The assessment said “there is a need for more and better science” on vaccines — though the new schedule does not say there are specific vaccines children should not get.

In practice, not much will change for parents who want their children to continue to get all of the vaccines previously recommended. Insurance will continue to cover the shots.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rfk-jr-vaccines-overhaul-kids-denmark-fewer-childhood-shots-rcna250055?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=695c0c04bd00000001e9bd40&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[PartySick 174,218]

Vaccination should be compulsory. Idc, if you wanna send your kid to public school then they need to be immunized for their own safety and the safety of others.

And if you refuse, you better be prepared to comply with the public curriculum while home schooling your child.

And if you fail in that too then you're not fit to be a parent anyway.

It's infuriating how the right has us sprinting backwards on the most basic things.

[NUTELLA 29,916]

We must have faith.

Would a man who collects roadkill endanger children?

[Ladle Ghoulash 55,282]

1 minute ago, NUTELLA said:

We must have faith.

Would a man who collects roadkill endanger children?

I, too, have faith in the man who eats antiparistic meds like mentos and chases them down with blue textile dye. Stand strong, patriots are in control 🫡

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[Onlygaga 1,813]

It’s always “sAvE tHe ChIlDrEn” until it actually comes to saving the children. 

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Why isn’t the HPV Vaccine on the list? Everyone has fun. It is needed. 

[Helxig 45,633]

American religious right wing weirdos only care about a sperm and egg growing inside human incubator but as soon as that things out it's life means NOTHING to them. It makes no sense. What a bunch of brain dead freaks honestly

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16 hours ago, PartySick said:

Vaccination should be compulsory. Idc, if you wanna send your kid to public school then they need to be immunized for their own safety and the safety of others.

And if you refuse, you better be prepared to comply with the public curriculum while home schooling your child.

And if you fail in that too then you're not fit to be a parent anyway.

It's infuriating how the right has us sprinting backwards on the most basic things.

Homeschool regulations are abysmal in many states, it's up to the parent to report to the state, very easy to lie. I do agree with you though, but more laws would have to change first.