News|Articles|January 6, 2026

Reactions to the CDC changing the childhood vaccine schedule

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Reactions from the pediatric health care community poured in following swift changes to the US childhood vaccine schedule by the CDC.

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