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Reactions to the CDC changing the childhood vaccine schedule
Author(s)Joshua Fitch, Senior Editor
Fact checked by: Morgan Ebert, Executive Editor, Justin Mancini
Reactions from the pediatric health care community poured in following swift changes to the US childhood vaccine schedule by the CDC.
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Following the CDC's shake-up of the United States' childhood vaccine schedule, many experts and medical societies in the pediatric infectious diseases space have voiced their concerns with the vaccine recommendation changes.1
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