Vaccine Changes Will Make American Children Suffer Again

By making sweeping changes to the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule, America’s top health leaders are recklessly maximizing the threat from previously common diseases and dismissing our collective role in preventing them.

The new policy, which cuts the number of recommended vaccinations by more than a third, sends a not-so-subtle message that something was broken in the previous approach to keeping American kids healthy — despite decades of evidence to the contrary. It marks a striking escalation of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decades-long project to amplify doubt and confusion about the safety, necessity, and availability of vaccines — one that will ultimately put everyone at risk from preventable diseases as more parents turn away from routine shots.