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RFK Jr. guts the US childhood vaccine schedule despite its decades-long safety record

  • Written by Jake Scott, Clinical Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University
imageVaccines on the childhood schedule have been tested in controlled trials involving millions of participants and are constantly monitored for safety.GeorgiNutsov/iStock via Getty Images

The Trump administration’s overhauling of the decades-old childhood vaccination schedule, announced by federal health officials on Jan. 5, 2026, has raised...

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