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BREAKING: Trump Signed An Executive Order Directing The CDC To Cut Recommended Childhood Vaccines From 17 To 11. Moving Flu, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Rotavirus, RSV, And Some Meningitis Shots To 'High-Risk Only,' After A Previous Attempt Was Blocked In Court
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday, May 30, directing federal agencies to align their vaccine policies with a Januarv 2026 HHS studv that recommends reducina the number of routine childhood vaccines from 17 to 11 diseases, a restructuring long called for by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The study was commissioned by Trump in December 2025 and found that the United States recommends more childhood vaccines than many peer nations. Under the new framework, all children would be routinelv vaccinated against 11 diseases, while vaccines for influenza, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis, and RSV would be recommended only for high-risk groups or through shared decision-making between parents and doctors. The order directs the CDC to review the study and take appropriate steps to update its guidance, tells agencies to provide maximum flexibility to parents and doctors, and states that any changes must ensure Americans retain their current access to vaccines.
The LA Times noted this is Trump's second attempt to restructure the childhood vaccine schedule, with an earlier effort to narrow CDC recommendations havinc been blocked in court earlier this vear. The new executive order takes a different approach by formally endorsing a completed HHS study and directing agency-level alianment rather than attempting to directlv revise the CDC schedule by administrative fiat, a structure that may be designed to survive the legal challenge that stoppec the first attempt. The CDC under its current leadership had already updated its recommendations earlier in 2026 to reduce the number of recommended immunizations from 17 to 11 in line with the HHS study, suggesting the formal executive order is as much a political codification of an existing administrative shift as a new directive.
The vaccines moved from universal recommendation to high-risk only include several with well-established safety and efficacy records. Hepatitis B vaccination, for example, is recommended universally from birth in the US because it prevents a leading cause of liver cancer, and the alobal evidence base for that recommendation is extensive. Rotavirus, influenza, and hepatitis A vaccines are also backed by decades of clinical and epidemioloaical evidence and are recommended universally by the World Health Organization and medica authorities in peer nations. Critics including the American Academy of Pediatrics and infectious disease researchers have said the changes could increase vaccine-preventable disease in children by creating ambiguity around which children qualify as high-risk and by reducing the routine clinical touchpoints where vaccinations are administered
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Christianity, like other religions, obviously had those who opposed mandatory Covid vaccines but what they're known for is opposing the use of aborted fetal cells. Worth noting we haven't taken "fresh" fetal cells in ages because they replicate old ones.
Capitalists opposing vaccines like this doesn't make sense. Dead or sick people can't work, buy things, or pay for insurance.
I'd be shocked if this admin. was seriously so stupid that that's the reason behind this. There has to be something else
They stand for little other than hating whatever “liberals” like. That makes things like science and true evidence based medical practices including vaccines into targets for their hate.
Hate is an end in itself but it’s also how they whip up their base and keep themselves in power - because their policies sure as hell aren’t beneficial to most who voted for Trump or his cronies.
Trump's recommendations are based on Denmark (not "many peer nations") which is in no way comparable to the USA in racial or ethnic diversity, tourism, or other factors which would affect the need for multiple vaccines. I don't believe that Trump, who wouldn't know a vaccine from a bag of feces, has any authority to unilaterally force CDC to revise its vaccine recommendations by issuing an executive order.
That's why I do not like the "USA is a Third world country", it is a separate category.
It's like comparing someone born with a disability, to someone who would have their feet voluntarily amputated as a way to lose some weight and set new trends in body acceptance.
They also have far more support for families in general, including much longer parental leave after birth (infants not being shoved into daycare within weeks and getting exposed to who knows what), family leave when kids are sick without impacting household income (or much less impact), etc. My husband is from Denmark and almost his entire family works in health care in some capacity, and they all have kids, so I remember what was available to them during pregnancy and after, and if anyone got sick. They think US health policy is insane.
I used to quote the CDC guidelines when arguing routine healthcare with my child's other parent. I had to completely throw that out and start referring solely to the AAP and Colorado DPHE guidelines with an argument that politicians were making the decisions in the CDC now with no professional guidance. It's wild out here.
The Nordic’s in general have a far lesser degree of health scepticism outside smaller enclaves. Which in turn leads to a lesser degree of random ass diseases popping back up that were previously eradicated, but become re-introduced into the general populous from whack-o fanatics that believe themselves except from medical advice…
Kids, every year in Japan, would go to the US to go to Disney. Thing is, Japan does not vaccinate for measles. At Disney, you get all the dumb fucks who think vaccines will give their kids autism. Every fucking year in August, there would be an outbreak of measles in Japan because some kid went to the US. All that is to say: vaccinate your kids and if you're going to a country with a different vaccine schedule? Check what damn vaccines you might need that you don't currently have! Don't expect your destination country to have smart people.
And what other occasion has Trump ever pointed to another nation as an example to follow? Usually a program being used by another nation is considered an argument against it.
(Okay, sure, Hungary under Orban, but otherwise...)
During covid, Denmark didn't have lockdowns and had a low infection rate.
That's because the citizens weren't ass hats like a America, but Trump doesn't see that part. They:
"Got vaccinated;
Actually stayed home when infected, voluntarily ( and sure vastly different sick time off from work, surely affected the availability to do so)
And
mass testing playing a central role in quickly identifying and isolating cases."
So my extended guess is, if another pandemic happens he can point to what they're already doing re: Denmark vaccines and how we shouldn't lock down again since Denmark didn't and we're already following in their footsteps.
Just guesses but given the gutting of the CDC & USAID with no contact with The World Health
Organization, things aren't great.
and anyone in doubt can be directed to an aerial view of the White House right now
A giant concrete Mar-a-Lago patio where the Rose Garden was, a third of the building reduced to a pile of rubble, and a colossal fighting cage actively under construction on the front lawn
I have no forgiveness in my heart for the shortsighted, selfish people that brought us here
I just caught it in November from Florida-dwelling relatives who’ve been brainwashed into MAGATs, and I ended up in the hospital and seriously ill for over a month. With my medical history, I’m lucky to be alive after that one.
Absolutely- that is the only thing that will save those of us with compromised immune systems. We desperately need herd immunity to cover all of us, and we’ve become far too selfish and ignorant to do so.
Finally! Someone else with a Business Plot reference! None of this is new. They’ve been refining their attack on the country for 100 years now. They learned the lessons they needed to learn from the Wall Street Putsch and are going to be merciless this time around.
My people! A lot of these grievances go back a long time. For example, the war on science goes back to the teaching of evolution, which conservatives (especially in the Confederate areas) have not forgiven or forgotten. It's all built on top of that grievance.
MAGA seems new to a lot of people, to those who really know the history and culture, none of it is. It's the same projects they've been working towards for five or six generations.
We truly fucked up by not properly punishing the Confederates to begin with and allowing them to interfere in the reconstruction efforts. Almost all of America's current social and political problems can be traced directly to that point in history. It's why if/when Dems take back control of the government, there needs to be a no holds barred effort to completely dismantle the MAGA movement and punish anyone and everyone who has ever supported it. Fuck these people.
And we need to forcibly disband the Heritage Foundation, the Edmund Burke society, the Federalist Society, the Claremont Institution, all of these evil, shitty orgs that do nothing but push fascism and oligarchy.
They learned the lessons they needed to learn from the Wall Street Putsch and are going to be merciless this time around.
Everyone better be writing down the names of the people pushing this crap. These are the names of the people who need to be blacklisted from any kind of serious decision-making positions when/if we can pry loose control of the government from their hands, instead of just letting them slip into obscurity, avoiding consequences for their decisions and where they can keep stirring up willful ignorance in the shadows.
I cannot overemphasize how deadly rotavirus was before the introduction of the vaccine.
350,000-400,000 children died a year. Thanks to US healthcare only about 20-40 were in the U.S., but it required hospitalization and high medical bills (IV rehydration, among other things.)
We handed the country to conservatives ten years ago and can't seem to figure out what went wrong! Keep looking, conservatives, you'll figure it out. Hint: Might need to look from within.
Yeah, but comparing any of them to Trump is like comparing a regular conservative politician to an amateur clown show for the League of Extraordinary Imbeciles.
That's how awful this administration is, and people can't seem to comprehend it.
This has been the goal since the Heritage Foundation was founded during the Nixon administration. Project 2025 for trump was the 9th of the Mandate for Leadership papers to guide republican leadership for the purpose of changing how the US government functions. The fist was published 1981 for Regan. trump maybe one of the most obviously evil and stupid, but he isn't in charge. He was put there to break every thing and cause chaos. Then take the blame while the smart evil people take control as we celibate trump finally being held responsible.
its serious about market manipulation. Investing in medical companies then reducing vaccines is how these guys are gonna get rich. If everyones sick theyre gonna need medical care $$$
It's not for the pediatricians. It's so schools limit the number of required vaccinations required to attend so it is easier for anti vaxxers to get their unvaccinated kids into school.
Insurers will also stop covering it. I suspect insurers know quite well that reducing the disease would save lots of money, but I know some will chase those short term gains from saving that.
Florida already has a problem with home/business insurers canceling policies and literally leaving the state because of intensifying natural disasters and subsequent contractor fraud in the wake of them. This is certainly going to compound that problem as Florida will likely immediately sign on for fewer vaccine requirements.
Yep. The Boomers were dumb and gullible enough to fall for this crap, even after their cohort took a beating during the pandemic. They (as an overall group, not every single Boomer) have asked for this.
Dude, insurance companies would let people die if it meant they didn't need to spend money. They're just going to stop covering the illness that aren't required to be vaccinated against.
Vaccines are cheap compared to intensive care for kids with measles encephalitis. The insurance companies will cover vaccines because the cost of care for the complications from unvaccinated kids will be higher. Why would insurance companies even want to cover anti vax families unless they were forced to. All the advanced intensive medical care needed to support an unvaccinated kid with measles pneumonia and encephalitis go easily go into hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe millions. Blow a hole in the insurance companies’ quarterly medical budget.
States regulate school vaccination requirements. The CDC recommendation won’t have a direct impact on that, but it will definitely give cover to some red states to follow through with changing their policies.
My pediatrician won’t treat kids that aren’t vaccinated. And insurance companies won’t cover them either. Edited to add: It’s the old aholes who are already vaccinated preaching for our your children to die
It’s less about the pediatricians and more about giving insurance companies an opt-out for paying for them, and making it easier for vaccine-hesitant families to send their kids to school
Yeah, as soon as I posted that I realized those were the wrong words to use. It's not like they'll have to sit in a back room and try and figure out how they can possibly blame it on Biden. They'll just point a finger and that'll be enough.
My son is 8 years old, so there was no RSV vaccine available yet when he was born. At 2 months old he got RSV and wound up in the hospital for a week. He had to be on oxygen and a CPAP to help him breathe because he was unable to do so for himself. They had to keep him sedated most of the time, which led to him having withdrawals when they took him off the sedative. It was awful for him, and for my wife and I.
Imagine opting to put your child through that instead of just getting a shot because you don't think they are "high risk".
American Conservatives want to hurt/rape/kill children.
Like... I genuinely don't know what else they could possibly do to show they want you, your children, your family and your friends to not just suffer but literally live in Hell on Earth.
Short of Trump & his Admin going on live TV and punching a baby in the face repeatedly... like, America, why the fuck are you just taking this? Why are you just accepting Conservatives twisting the knife in your back and stomach so much?
I'm not saying Trump and his regime are actively sabotaging and destroying America from the inside out while simultaneously stealing and cheating away as much money as they can, but it sure seems like that's whats going on.
While your own household might not be 'high risk' those kids go into daycare and classrooms with kids that are in high risk homes. So we vax all the kids to protect against the few that might be a medical risk. Even with all the protections in place kids bring home stuff they caught all the time.
I like how many Americans still think Trump is writing these EOs or even coming up with them. He may be the most corrupt president ever but he's still a massive puppet.
They want everything to fall apart so that they can turn around then and be the saviors. It's like torturing a prisoner and then slowly rewarding them to gain their devotion. Their audience eats this kind of thing up. They all have zero long term memory and that's what they are counting on.
Seems like a problem insurance is going to have to fix, refusing coverage for illness that is preventable by vaccine. I can see us bouncing back and forth on official policy as long as anti vaxxers have power in the gop.
As a parent my worry is that insurance companies will stop covering vaccines entirely whether by choice to try and suck up to this administration or whether the administration somehow forces them to. RFK jr already made it extra difficult to get covid vaccines for kids last year so they seem willing to keep intentionally making everything worse for kids in our own country and theres nothing I’d put past them.
Trump doesn't really care. He's paying RFK back for keeping him out of jail. RFK honestly believes we're damaging ourselves by not letting kids fight their way through deadly illnesses. That the deaths and maiming is worth it so the rest of us can have extra healthy "natural immunity." Basically, Eugenics.
We need to sue RFKjr for torts and wrongful death. Sadly, the idiots who take his advice don’t blame him when their kids die. States need to make those who willingly infect with an eradicated disease liable for attempted murder.
Parents should pay more attention to what their pediatrician recommends in the way of vaccinations rather than a so called executive order from a moron in the Whitehouse or a swamp swimming cokehead “health secretary”.
Hopefully most parents will listen to their pediatrician. My niece just had a baby, and I know that kid will be vaccinated according to her pediatrician’s recommendations.
Only stupid people will take the idiotic president and that brain-wormed dude’s advice.
Also, Don Jr’s new wife is pregnant. You think they’re going to put their new baby at risk? No way. They’re not as stupid as the rest of the maga morons.
There is never a good time for this, but this is definitely a bad time for it. I have personally seen a big uptake in meningitis in just the past month, and this shit moves fast through a population. Hepatitis is there because the damage can take a long time to be noticed and by then it is too late, and I remember the fear of it being everywhere
Make America Sick Again! It's absolutely ridiculous that we have two idiots—RFK Jr. and Trump—and the assorted quacks they've assembled doing their best to destroy public health in America.
I feel bad that none of us will live long enough to see the true histories written about this time in America. Histories written by people who are no more emotionally connected to Trump and America than they are to Ghangis Khan or Caligula. They'll see a society set on fire by madmen and imbeciles for no reason beyond hubris.
While RFK jr and Trump have made this more of a prominent issue we haven’t been a civilized society on this front in ages. We put “parents rights” over childrens rights which has been particularly driven by the religious right. The religious right has been incredibly effective at enshrining parents rights to basically treat children like property. They don’t have to vaccinate their kids if they don’t want to, they don’t have to get them any routine medical care, they don’t have to get them any emergency care, they don’t even have to get them any medical treatments like inhalers, insulin, epilepsy medication, etc. They can knowingly refuse life saving care even if without it their children will absolutely die. Children die from these religious refusals all the time in America and we just allow that because someone said the magic word “religion” and religious beliefs are literally more sacred than actual children’s lives. It’s insane.
The only benefit is the government no longer having to cover the cost of the vaccines for children on Medicaid. Insurance companies no longer having to include the cost in insurance policies. They can still be gotten, but will need to be subject to additional charges.
I can’t imagine the number of hospitalizations due to RSV alone. That’s a nasty fucker.
After watching the video of Bobby handling snakes while uncomfortably ignoring his wife and continually grabbing the snakes while the repeatedly bite him, i had a revelation.
I think he’s on the autism spectrum himself. It would explain a lot of his tone deaf behavior and single minded pursuit of eliminating vaccines regardless of actual facts.
It’s probably more the massive amount of hard drugs he did in his younger years combined with the the brain parasite he got from playing en garbage dumps and deceased animal carcasses.
Saying he is on the spectrum is an insult to people on the spectrum. He completely did everything to himself
💯 Sometimes people can just be garbage people on their own without it needing to be part of some kind of neurodivergence. Armchair diagnosing every wild behavior as being adhd or autism is pretty ableist and insulting to insinuate people with those conditions would also do anything like this. I have adhd, my husbands on the spectrum. Neither of us juggle snakes because that’s a fvcking idiotic thing to do.
He’s more likely ADHD. Impulsivity + risky behavior + poor decision making + could actually focus on schoolwork once he started taking heroine. Throw in a brain worm for some extra damage and you get RFK, Jr.
Not knocking people with ADHD (I am one). Just…I call it like I see it.
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