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The Trump administration has dropped recommendations for six vaccines and one preventative therapy for all children
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In just a few weeks, the U.S. went from a “quiet” recalibration of a single vaccine recommendation to a wholesale retreat from the basic architecture of childhood immunization. That shift is being sold as a victory for “individual choice.” But in the real U.S. healthcare system, it looks much more like a high-risk social experiment with no safety net.
In early December, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee ended the long-standing recommendation that every newborn receive a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth, moving instead to a more selective approach modeled on that of Denmark.
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