01/06/2026
MAHA….. more like HAHA since RFK Jr is making a joke of medical guidance for our country. Between the new direction of the FDA, CDC, and ACIP, this government has decided that using their personal agendas are more important than using science to promote health. Along with their misguided change in Hepatitis B birth dose recommendations, today’s new changes in vaccine recommendations will harm kids and undermine pediatricians trying to protect kids from preventable diseases.
Patients of Positively Pediatrics, please rest assured that we will continue to value science over ideology and will be following the AAP’s vaccine schedule. Vaccines are safe. Vaccines save lives. Vaccinated kids are healthier than unvaccinated kids. Preventing disease is better than curing disease. Kids that contract vaccine-preventable diseases cannot always be saved.
Statement by AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s HHS announcement about the childhood immunization schedule:
“Today’s announcement by federal health officials to arbitrarily stop recommending numerous routine childhood immunizations is dangerous and unnecessary. The longstanding, evidence-based approach that has guided the U.S. immunization review and recommendation process remains the best way to keep children healthy and protect against health complications and hospitalizations.
For decades, leading health experts, immunologists, and pediatricians have carefully reviewed new data and evidence as part of the immunization recommendation process, helping to keep newborns, infants, and children protected from diseases they could be exposed to in the United States as they develop and grow. Today’s decision, which was based on a brief review of other countries’ practices, upends this deliberate scientific process.
During this uncertain time, the AAP will continue to publish our own childhood vaccine recommendations.”
