"U.S. health officials made broad changes to childhood vaccine recommendations Monday, alarming pediatricians and other medical experts who say they will sow confusion and undermine children's health. The overhaul is effective immediately, meaning that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will now recommend that all children get vaccinated against 11 diseases, down from 18 a year ago. The changes comes as U.S. vaccination rates have been slipping and the share of children with exemptions has reached an all-time high, according to federal data."
"Here's what federal vaccine recommendations stayed the same The following vaccines were left on the recommended-for-all list: Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) Diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis or whooping cough (DTaP) Polio Chickenpox Human papillomavirus, or HPV. But in a surprise, the guidance reduces the number of recommended vaccine doses against HPV from two or three shots to just one."
U.S. health officials narrowed childhood vaccine recommendations, reducing routine vaccines for all children from 18 to 11 and shifting several vaccines to shared decision-making for high-risk children or individualized doctor advice. Vaccines moved off the universal list include flu, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningococcal disease, rotavirus, RSV and COVID-19 (changed in 2025). Vaccines left on the recommended-for-all list include MMR, DTaP, polio, chickenpox, HPV (with the recommended doses reduced to a single shot), Hib and PCV. The overhaul is effective immediately. Vaccination rates have slipped, exemptions are at historic highs, and preventable disease rates are rising. The change followed a presidential request to review peer nations' approaches.
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