Trump Directs CDC To Reexamine Entire Childhood Vaccine Schedule

By Jessica Karins / December 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM

President Donald Trump is endorsing an FDA official’s controversial call for the childhood vaccine schedule in the United States to be more like the recommendations in smaller, less diverse nations, directing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to revisit the schedule from that angle.


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