Vaccines and Public Health Policy

President Trump has ordered a review of the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule, directing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC director to fast-track a comparison of core childhood-vaccine practices in peer developed countries and to update the American schedule if other countries’ approaches are judged "better," while preserving access to currently available vaccines; the directive follows a CDC panel’s withdrawal of the universal infant hepatitis B birth recommendation. Trump praised the panel on Truth Social, Kennedy replied on X "Thank you, Mr. President. We’re on it," and the American Medical Association’s Sandra Adamson Fryhofer called the hepatitis B decision "reckless" and not based on scientific evidence.