Among polled adults, 1 in 10 were not sure what shared decision-making means.
The category sounds reasonable, even collaborative. It is neither. And it will put children’s health and lives at risk.
The new vaccination policy, which pares the number of universally recommended immunizations from 17 to 11, is modeled after the schedule used by Denmark.
States will no longer be required to report how many children they vaccinate to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
In another sign of growing vaccine hesitancy, a new report finds that the percentage of US toddlers vaccinated on time against measles, mumps and rubella has fallen since the COVID pandemic.
The US total reflects 54 new cases, as the country teeters on the brink of losing its measles elimination status.
Legal experts say Kennedy needs to follow established legal procedures to prevent any policy changes from being dismissed by a judge.
Anthony Fauci, MD, former NIAID director and chief medical adviser to former US President Joe Biden, calls Marrazzo a “superb choice.”
An abundance of evidence demonstrates lives saved and hospitalizations avoided because of childhood immunizations.
The agency is paying University of Southern Denmark researchers to conduct a single-blind clinical trial of the hepatitis B vaccine in newborns in Guinea-Bissau.
