US EditionTrump asks RFK Jr. to ‘fast track’ vaccine schedule review
Trump ordered a rapid review of the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule to align with peer nations, citing the U.S. recommends vaccines for 18 diseases versus 10-15 in comparable countries.
- On Dec. 5, President Donald Trump signed a memo ordering a fast-tracked review of every childhood vaccine recommendation, instructing HHS and CDC to align U.S. schedules with peer developed countries.
- Thursday and Friday, the ACIP held hearings in Atlanta that questioned the U.S. vaccine schedule compared with Denmark, noting CDC guidance recommends nearly all newborns receive hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours but many infants are lost to follow-up.
- The White House emphasized Trump said the U.S. recommends immunizing children against 18 diseases, more than Denmark's 10, Japan's 14 and Germany's 15, and supported ending the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
- The memorandum directs HHS and the CDC to update the U.S. vaccine schedule if peer practices are superior, while Trump reiterated confidence in Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wrote Trump.
- Amid political debate, public health experts and committee liaisons said smaller populations and universal care complicate vaccine schedule comparisons, while a GOP senator called the CDC's hepatitis B change a mistake and noted President Donald Trump's history of questioning schedules.
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Trump Orders Review of All Childhood Vaccines, Weighing In Hours After Controversial Hepatitis-B Vaccine Decision
The president argues that America administers more childhood vaccines than other ‘peer’ countries and demands an assessment of best practices across those countries.
Sydney Morning Herald
Trump orders review of childhood vaccines, calls US an ‘outlier’
The US president said his country recommends “far more” shots to children than necessary, hours after an influential vaccine advisory panel voted to lift a long-standing recommendation for all newborns receive a vaccine for hepatitis B.
The Epoch Times
Trump Signs Memo to Align US Childhood Vaccines With Other Developed Countries
President Donald Trump signed a memo on Dec. 5 seeking to align U.S. childhood vaccine recommendations with best practices in “developed countries,” where children receive fewer vaccines than in the United States. In his memo, Trump stated that when he started his second term in January, the U.S. recommended immunizing children against 18 diseases, including COVID-19, which is higher than those recommended in Denmark (10), Japan (14), and German…
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