US EditionAmerican Academy of Pediatrics Departs From CDC with Childhood Vaccine Revisions
The American Academy of Pediatrics maintains routine vaccination for 18 diseases in 2026, contrasting the CDC's narrower 11-disease recommendation amid growing state-level divergence.
- The AAP on Monday issued its 2026 childhood and adolescent immunization schedule, continuing routine protection against 18 diseases but no longer endorsing the CDC's revised schedule.
- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disbanded and reconstituted the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices midway through 2025, prompting the CDC to issue a downsized schedule modeled partly on Denmark.
- The AAP's 2026 schedule continues to recommend vaccines for RSV, hepatitis A and B, rotavirus, influenza and meningococcal disease, with twelve major medical societies including the AMA and IDSA endorsing it as `This is the standard of care,` Sean O'Leary said.
- As of Jan. 20, KFF found 28 states deviating from federal vaccine guidelines, many doctors and states now follow the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction this month.
- The American Academy of Pediatrics urges parents and families to follow physicians' guidance to protect children, warning that removing universal recommendations risks health and citing over 15 years of severe outcomes including 18 pediatric deaths.
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For decades, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spoke with a single voice when advising the nation’s families on when to vaccinate their children. Since 1995, the two organizations have worked together to publish a single vaccine schedule for parents and healthcare providers that clearly laid out which vaccines children should get and exactly when they should get them. Today, that united fr…
American Academy of Pediatrics releases childhood vaccine schedule based on previous recommendations
As an alternative to new federal vaccine recommendations, the American Academy of Pediatrics released its own childhood vaccine schedule Monday with the backing of a dozen of the nation's most prominent medical groups and associations.
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union-bulletin.comPediatricians urge Americans to stick with previous vaccine schedule, despite CDC's recent changes
America’s pediatricians and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were once in lockstep on how vaccines impact child health. Not anymore.
Pediatricians split from CDC in childhood vaccine recommendations
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on Monday released its 2026 childhood vaccine schedule. The guidance — endorsed by 12 other independent health organizations — is largely unchanged from last year’s version, but now diverges significantly from the updated immunization schedule announced this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). AAP continues to recommend that all children receive vaccines against 18 infectious di…
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