The Trump administration took unprecedented steps to recommend fewer vaccines for children without extensive consultations with career scientists.

The new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18, including Covid, previously on the schedule.

Mandated vaccinations for children attending school will remain in place, said New York State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald. Federal officials have removed some shots.

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to improve children’s health. But his sweeping changes to the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule will do the opposite, health experts warn.

The CDC took six previously routine vaccinations off its recommendation list, but Michigan health officials suggest parents consider those immunizations anyway.

President Donald Trump spread some confusion about childhood vaccinations in social media posts about changes to U.S. vaccine recommendations

Just independent reporting funded by readers who believe truth matters. After the Trump administration announced that it’s decreasing the number of vaccines in the childhood immunization schedule, President Donald Trump took to social media to share what doctors call “ fictitious ,