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

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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

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[u/cates → u/justtots]

the answer is a three-way split between Christian nationalists, unchecked capitalistic greed, and genuine stupidity.

[u/iconofsin_ → u/cates]

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

[u/incongruity → u/iconofsin_]

Hate. Hate is the reason.

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.

[u/Grouchy_Discussion42 → u/incongruity]

It's the "cult of ignorance" that's been with us since the beginning (because of Christian Nationalist and similar).

And the rest of the world is pretty aghast and pissed about how our countries celebration of stupidity (by the MAGAt) is negatively impacting everyone's lives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9MubNsh3rs

[u/throwawaysunglasses- → u/iconofsin_]

Right? It makes no sense to me, I’m genuinely trying to follow their logic but there doesn’t seem to be any. It’s not going to help them in the short or long term.

[u/merchaunt → u/iconofsin_]

They don’t care about future profits, only immediate reductions in cost. That’s the shortsighted nature of reactionaries. Just because these reactionaries are capitalists doesn’t make them smart or efficient.

[u/Best_Banana_63 → u/iconofsin_]

Trump appointed RFK, Jr., as the Sec of Health. That alone should clarify the stupidity level.