Childhood
“Patient autonomy” is not a good way to think about childhood vaccination policy
The Trump administration has made sweeping changes to its vaccine policy over the past year, justified by invoking the “personal autonomy” of patients. In January, Department of Health and Human Services head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump reduced the number of routinely recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11 after an HHS report highlighted “personal […]
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Childhood vaccines under scrutiny from Kennedy’s ACIP panel
WASHINGTON — Federal vaccine advisers, in a freewheeling and sometimes combative two-day meeting, recommended a major change in childhood immunizations that flies in the face of medical consensus — and began laying the groundwork for a broader overhaul in the future. New recommendations and many arguments about U.S. vaccination strategies overlook vast amounts of data […]
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