Trump Admin Narrows Childhood Immunization List, Citing Alignment With Other Developed Nations
The list drops from 17 shots to 11.
The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have announced a major overhaul of the U.S. childhood immunization schedule that should make many in the Make America Healthy Again movement happy.
The U.S. has formally taken the unprecedented step Monday of reducing the number of vaccines it recommends for every child in a major overhaul of the childhood immunization schedule.
The change came after President Donald Trump in December asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to review how peer nations approach vaccine recommendations and consider revising its guidance to align with theirs.
The new schedule, which takes effect immediately, aligns the U.S. vaccine recommendations more closely with Denmark’s.
Under the new guidelines, children should receive vaccinations for 11 diseases, down from 17 previously on the schedule. Instead of universal recommendations for almost all children in certain age groups, vaccines are split into categories, including for all children, certain high-risk groups, and vaccines shared on a clinical decision-making basis.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announced HHS has REDUCED the childhood vaccine schedule from **72** jabs to 11
An absolutely MASSIVE win for MAHA and American babies! 🙏🏻
TRUMP: “Today, the Trump Administration is proud to announce the United States of America’s updated Childhood… pic.twitter.com/b1vq08w52J
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 5, 2026
The schedule still includes the “classics”. However, it no longer recommends universal shots for others; instead, it recommends more recent vaccine offerings.
Health officials will continue to recommend the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines and immunizations against polio, chickenpox, HPV and others, but they are narrowing recommendations for vaccination against meningococcal disease, hepatitis B and hepatitis A to children who are broadly at higher risk for infections.
They recommend that decisions on vaccinations against flu, Covid-19 and rotavirus be based on “shared clinical decision-making,” which means people who want one must consult with a health care provider.
HHS said that its recommendations for immunizations against respiratory synctytial virus, or RSV, remain unchanged and that infants born to mothers who did not receive the vaccine should have one dose.
Arguments for the move include that it will foster more public trust in the vaccines, which have suffered because of the inept handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated COVID-19 mandate.
HHS in a statement said that reducing the number of recommended vaccines would help restore public trust in health agencies — and possibly confidence in vaccines themselves. The agency reasoned that despite recommending more shots, the US does not have higher vaccination rates than peer countries that rely on “education rather than mandates.”
The government’s vaccine outreach and messaging has been vastly reshaped under Kennedy, who has questioned vaccine safety for decades.
The HHS scoured the list of previously recommended vaccines and selected those deemed most beneficial.
HHS said its comparison to 20 peer nations found that the U.S. was an “outlier” in both the number of vaccinations and the number of doses it recommended to all children. Officials with the agency framed the change as a way to increase public trust by recommending only the most important vaccinations for children to receive.
This seems like a good move, giving parents a chance to make informed decisions. The plan also includes insurance coverage for all vaccines, whether they are the 11 recommended vaccines or those in other categories.
The updated recommendations feature a 3-tiered approach and will include immunization recommendations for all children, those recommended for particular high-risk groups or populations, and those based on what the organization is calling “shared clinical decision-making.”
According to a press release from the CDC, all recommendations from the CDC as of December 31, 2025, “will continue to be fully covered by Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket.”
In the 1960’s children received 5 vaccine shots in total.
Today, the CDC says that children should receive 72 vaccine shots, a majority of them before the age of 6.
The CDC is known for corruptly advancing Big Pharma interests. This schedule needs to be investigated further. pic.twitter.com/eQV7cFl6rI
— Dr. Simone Gold (@drsimonegold) September 7, 2024
The CDC is now recommending all children be vaccinated against 11 diseases, a decrease from the 17 immunizations previously recommended. CBS News’ @DrLaPook has more on the new guidelines. https://t.co/7K6vBXV9sc pic.twitter.com/R43KLKngKd
— CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil (@CBSEveningNews) January 6, 2026
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But, but… but…….
If we don’t vaccinate children against everything (including sexually transmitted diseases) then how will they ever be SAFE????
Well there’s always a huge plastic bubble.
Saw the movie with John Travolta. He was insufferable as usual but the premise was interesting,
the main vax the kids need they are not getting
inoculation against leftism
the schools have been over run and we are too afraid ( thank a gop for that) to do anything
those voucher programs are more the same
gov in control
And btw an update on that “newly discovered” trans male -to-female that busted up JD Vances house …
the msm has noted that the perp has been busted manyyy times before but always let go for treatment for mental illness
BUT here is the catch
msm wont connect transboys mental illness to him being trans so they are (mostly) leaving out that “he” calls himself
julia
Sadly the HPV is still recommended. Numerous complaints of significant injury and no proof it actually prevents cervical cancer. In fact, rates of that are going up. Then there is the problem that if you have already been exposed to human papilloma virus and receive the vac, your chances of cancer are increased. Bad choice.
Yeah I wondered about that one too. The new list seems reasonable with the exception of HPV which should be optional and circumstantial. I haven’t perused the old list to see what;s left off though,
In my State this vaccine is not administered until a child is 12.
Since it’s a (generally) sexually transmitted disease, 12yos getting it still involves likely illegal activity.
The fact that post exposure vaccination is linked to higher cancer rates is a reason to vaccinate children to ensure pre-exposure. And please don’t tell me your kids aren’t sexually active. Parents are frequently clueless about abuse, much less voluntary sexual exploration and activity.
As an aside, several of my children had chronic problems with warts (farm kid hazard), when they received their HPV vaccine around age 12, that was the end of their warts, permanently it seems as that was well over 15 years ago.
Optional means just that. They key is mandatory which governs which ones they must get.
I have a similar wart story. I developed a whole wart farm on the bottoms of my feet. Don’t know how. At 21-22 I was working with the SV40 African Green Money Kidney virus which is kind of a cousin to HPV. Low and behold my warts disappeared and never returned. Kind of cool.
It actually was optional in my state. The schools would tell you they are required, but if you read the fine print, what the state actually required was that you fill out the form for the school to keep on file so they could exclude non vaccinated children in the event of an outbreak. Plus there was a philosophical/religious opt out section.
Probably has changed since then as my state went full Covid fascist. But at the time I was homeschooling anyway. Although the form had to be filled out for sports participation.
I always got a laugh out of how TPTB presented mandatory record keeping as mandatory vaccination. But the actual law/policy was quite simple and non coercive back before the autism controversy. Keep a list of the unvaxxed and send them home in the event of an outbreak.
Most parents faced with 2-3 weeks of staying home with non sick kids (can’t go to daycare either) are going to get their school age kids vaxxed pdq.
another story LI might like:
the attempt to free a murderer that the Reiners had “fallen in love with”
its more disgusting as we go along as the msm portrays the murder as of course railroaded by the system when in fact his own buddy /crime partner was the snitch
and the loser msm even pulls their usual trickery with the headline “allegedly”
Murder He Allegedly Didn’t Commit
not..he says he didnt commit
but a murder he allegedly didnt commit
https://people.com/rob-michele-reiner-loving-bond-man-sentenced-to-death-11879745#comments
Number of childhood vaccinations:
a. European nations — 11
b. United States of America — 72
c. 3rd World Biden allowed to come in — 0
Excellent point, and now we’re paying bigly.
11 diseases, not 11 total doses. You are comparing number diseases being vaxed for to total number of doses. Not all vaccines are one and done, most require multiple doses because children have immature immune systems that require “reminding”. Some vaccines only last a decade, like tetanus.
Is there a list of vaccines recommended for prospective mothers? It seems to me that prospective mothers should be responsible for being vaccinated against certain diseases to protect their future infants from them (the diseases) rather than recommending the same vaccines for the infants themselves.
It’s called “responsibility.”
I don’t think it works like that. My understanding is moms can pass on antibodies to infants by breastfeeding, but once that stops, the kid is on their own.
The real reason they do so many vaccines at birth is some mothers (of certain groups) basically never bring their kids back to the doctor. Thus the kids don’t see a doctor till they enter school at age 5. But since we can’t say anything about that, they push vaccines on all infants, getting in as many as possible before they leave the hospital.
Yes, the MMR. Women planning to become pregnant should make sure they were vaccinated or get vaccinated. Measles exposure during pregnancy can cause serious birth defects. Remember March of Dimes? It’s original purpose was to eradicated birth defects by worldwide vaccination.
Other than that, breastfeeding only provides antibodies for the first 6 months and not all mothers breastfeed so children will need to be vaccinated against the most dangerous of the common childhood diseases.
Unfortunately some vax s can even be potentially injurious to a baby in utero when the mom takes it. Here is a good article explaining the concerns. It is well-known that the covid one caused a significant number of of miscarriages.
https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/maternal-immune-activation-during?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=475124&post_id=183245193&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=b701p&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
I don’t see any need for HPV vaccine to remain on the list of universally recommended. That gives schools an excuse to require one. The HPV vaccine for protection needed for cancers linked to sexual activity. That should be based on discussion with the family pediatrician. It does not compare at all to having a child vaccinated against community wide outbreaks such as polio or measles.
Like requiring the HepB vaccine requiring HPV assumes sexual activity in adolescence instead of realizing that is a risk best determined by actual clinical history not a broad brush.
‘it puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again’
This plan seems perfectly reasonable to me; hence it will drive the left insane.
Unmentioned but extremely important; although the reduction from 17 vaccines to 11 doesn’t seem all that impactful, the number of DOSES is reduced by 50.
This is one helluva start. Thanks, RFK, Jr.
And the shift away from factory line ‘one size fits all’ towards individual assessment of patients circumstances and Parental decision-making.
1950s/1960s here we come. We’re coming home.
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