A Stanford infectious disease physician lays out how Trump's executive order endorses the same HHS decision, already blocked in federal court, to cut the universal childhood vaccine list from 17 diseases to 11, while also directing the Justice Department to challenge state school vaccine exemption rules.
The piece traces how today's schedule was built over six decades through evidence review and advisory committee votes, not political directive, and notes that despite more vaccines being added since the 1980s, the antigen load in the entire current schedule is a fraction of what one 1980s pertussis shot alone contained.
The author stresses that no new evidence prompted any of these changes, that the American Academy of Pediatrics still recommends the full schedule, and that insurance coverage remains intact — but that confusion at the doctor's office, arriving alongside the worst measles outbreak since 1991, is the real and immediate cost.
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