Exclusive: HHS planning to overhaul childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots, source says

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Source: CNN Health

Updated Dec 18, 2025, 11:19 PM ET
PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2025, 8:51 PM ET


The US Department of Health and Human Services is planning to overhaul the schedule of recommended vaccines for children in the US, a person familiar with the plans told CNN on Thursday.

The proposed new schedule would recommend fewer shots, bringing it closer in line with what’s recommended in other developed countries. The expectation is that the US schedule will be close to, if not identical to, recommendations in Denmark, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak about the matter.

The plan has not been finalized and could still change. HHS had planned to make the announcement Friday afternoon, the person said, but it was pushed to 2026 so as not to conflict with White House plans to announce further efforts to lower drug costs through “Most Favored Nation” pricing.

An HHS spokesperson declined to comment and referred questions to the agency’s earlier statement that it had postponed a “children’s health announcement” until next year.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/health/hhs-childhood-vaccine-changes

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1. Vaccine opt-outs for Ark. kindergartners have almost tripled in the past 10 years

December 17, 2025 2:27 pm

The percentage of kindergarten students with a vaccine exemption reached another all-time high in Arkansas and across the U.S. in the 2024-25 school year, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data shows.

That’s according to a blog post this week from the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, which keeps track of vaccine uptake rates and CDC data. In the 2014-15 school year, 1.3% of Arkansas kindergarten students had exemptions from receiving vaccines. In 2024-25, a decade later, the rate was 3.6%.

The increase was driven entirely by non-medical exemptions, which make up only a tiny fraction of the total. Arkansas allows parents or guardians to claim an exemption for religious or philosophical reasons, and an increasing number of families are doing so.

The rise comes as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, who has promoted fringe ideas about the dangers of vaccines, continues chipping away at long-standing policy on immunizations. A federal committee voted earlier this month to drop a recommendation that all newborns be immunized against hepatitis B. Public health experts, including Arkansas members of the American Academy of Pediatrics, decried the change.

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https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2025/12/17/vaccine-opt-outs-for-ark-kindergartners-have-almost-tripled-in-the-past-10-years

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2. Sad for the children but in time there will be no Republicans.

[GB_RN]

4. Good.

‘Cause I hate ‘em all. Reichwing douchebags. 🤬

[GB_RN]

3. Jesus...

It’s not MAHA. It’s MASA (Make America Sick Again).

[travelingthrulife]

5. Part of their plan , other than to kill people outright, is to destroy education in this country.

No one will want to send their kids to schools with constant ID outbreaks.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Boobie Brainworm wants to kill your kids

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7. Denmark has universal health care to catch and stop disease outbreaks

Are we getting that too?

No?

Oh, well fuck you then.