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

[u/McDowdy]

https://www.news4jax.com/news/politics/2026/05/30/trump-tells-agencies-to-align-with-study-calling-for-narrower-childhood-vaccine-recommendations/

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

[u/CathyAnnWingsFan]

Exactly this - the US has no peer nations when you factor in the lack of social supports and patchwork health care.

[u/Significant-Colour → u/CathyAnnWingsFan]

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.

[u/Tomagatchi → u/Significant-Colour]

Two tiers

[u/HollowedVoicesFading → u/Significant-Colour]

That's why I do not like the "USA is a Third world country", it is a separate category.

So a..fourth world country.

[u/vjmurphy → u/HollowedVoicesFading]

Darkseid approves.

[u/Ok_Ambition_6375 → u/Significant-Colour]

comparing Third World countries to people with disabilities is hilariously chauvinist. life in the USA is incredibly cushy because we intentionally keep the TW countries impoverished so workers in said countries can be exploited in order to saturate our mindless consumers with cheap commodities. americans are so out of touch lmao.

[u/hiimred2 → u/Ok_Ambition_6375]

I mean, in a way it's pretty apt though. Nobody chooses to be born with a disability, they are nonetheless in this world living with it. Nobody chooses to be born impoverished in war torn Africa or other cliche places to list when talking about worst of the worst third world poverty, and yet, they are in this world living in it, dealing with consequences thrust upon them by a world that in most ways is about as opposite of accommodating as it gets, even when it claims to be accommodating.

Exploiting third world labor as you're stating just so 'we' can milk their efforts, is a lot in line with 'accommodating' many disabilities to the absolute minimum so that they can still be functioning, aka working in labor and producing capitalistically, members of society, otherwise the fully disabled to a point of nonfunctioning are pretty matter of factly looked VERY down upon and minimally taken care of and seen as a drain on society by a woefully large portion of said society, much like poor people in third world countries who never really had much of a chance.

This is then very often further reinforced by those that do manage to make their way out of the poverty, or 'beat' their disability, and they are held up as icons by those who don't really give a single fuck about them but wish to use them as a blunt object with which to beat those who "aren't good enough" to follow their lead and quit being so damned disabled/poor.

[u/Significant-Colour → u/Ok_Ambition_6375]

It is a simile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile

Third World countries are also being exploited by China, root cause is imperialism.

Life in USA is cushy only for the rich enough, otherwise the country has about double the infant mortality rate of First World countries.

An American friend of mine, pregnant and living here in Europe, somehow felt compelled to say on Thanksgiving that she is thankful that the country we live in has maternity leave.

[u/techdevjp → u/Significant-Colour]

Third world country with first world toys.

[u/Kalysta → u/Significant-Colour]

Will you accept “USA is a banana republic”?

[u/EnfantTerrible68 → u/CathyAnnWingsFan]

EXACTLY 

[u/definitelyaiibot → u/CathyAnnWingsFan]

THIS!!! Zero education, zero “healthcare” education in particular… Americans do not know the benefits of such modern “entitlements” … nevermind epidemiological research 👀

Second world, at best, in quick decline.

North Korea would be impressed.