Pediatricians Bypass CDC Vaccine Guidance After 6 Shots Were Dropped From Child Schedule
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Updated · Honolulu Star-Advertiser · Aug 11
Pediatricians Bypass CDC Vaccine Guidance After 6 Shots Were Dropped From Child Schedule
3 articles · Updated · Honolulu Star-Advertiser · Aug 11
Summary
Amherst Pediatrics and other local providers are steering families away from CDC vaccine advice and toward doctors, state agencies and groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Jan. 5 changes to the CDC child schedule dropped six vaccines—including flu, COVID-19, hepatitis A and B, rotavirus, and meningococcal—after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced the agency’s vaccine advisory board.
A federal judge in March ordered the administration to restore the previous guidance after medical groups sued, but the appeal has left parents and clinicians navigating conflicting recommendations.
Western Massachusetts providers and health officials built the Valley Vax campaign to fill that gap, while California, Hawai‘i, Oregon and Washington joined a West Coast alliance and 14 states plus Guam formed a separate public-health coalition.
Doctors say the rupture has made vaccine conversations more tense and fed hesitancy, with some parents rejecting shots outright and others saying they no longer know which public-health source to trust.