{"id":8941,"date":"2025-12-08T23:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/acip-meeting-us-childhood-vaccine-schedule-vs-europe\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:02:22","slug":"acip-meeting-us-childhood-vaccine-schedule-vs-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/acip-meeting-us-childhood-vaccine-schedule-vs-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Why comparing the U.S. vaccine schedule to European countries\u2019 is a red herring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: Why comparing the U.S. vaccine schedule to European countries\u2019 is a red herring<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If any ambiguity remained about the ultimate goal of the current administration\u2019s public health policy, last week shattered it.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, following a disastrous two-day meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), President Trump signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/12\/aligning-united-states-core-childhood-vaccine-recommendations-with-best-practices-from-peer-developed-countries\/\">a memorandum<\/a> directing the Department of Health and Human Services to align the U.S. vaccine schedule with peer, developed countries \u2014 a seemingly reasonable but fraught suggestion. This directive follows the explicit road map laid out by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose stated goal is upending the childhood vaccination schedule.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/08\/acip-meeting-us-childhood-vaccine-schedule-vs-europe\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Richard Hughes IV<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/08\/acip-meeting-us-childhood-vaccine-schedule-vs-europe\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: Why comparing the U.S. vaccine schedule to European countries\u2019 is a red herring If any ambiguity remained about the ultimate goal of the current administration\u2019s public health policy, last week shattered it. On Friday, following a disastrous two-day meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,2433,2146,2143,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-childrens-health","category-fda","category-first-opinion","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}