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Trump order endorses plan to halve vaccines recommended for children
Executive order recognizes health department assessment as guide for federal government for childhood vaccines
TL;DR
- Executive order aims to reduce the number of recommended childhood vaccines.
- The order is based on an assessment from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s health and human services department.
- Potential changes could remove vaccines for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningitis, rotavirus, influenza, and Covid-19.
- The number of HPV vaccine doses might be reduced from two or three to one.
- Fifteen states are suing the HHS and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the proposed changes.
- Critics argue the changes lack scientific basis and could lead to a resurgence of preventable diseases.
- The assessment's reliance on Denmark as a 'peer country' for vaccine policy is questioned.