“As a physician deeply committed to public health and the well-being of our communities, I must emphasize that changing the vaccine schedule without the input of American experts in pediatrics, infectious diseases, and public health compromises both the scientific integrity and the transparency we owe to families,” Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told Gizmodo. Denmark universally recommends childhood vaccines for 10 diseases, whereas the U.S. universally recommends vaccines for 16 diseases (that number was 17 until the recent ACIP-led change to revoke its recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine). And contrary to the Trump administration’s argument, many countries are similar to the U.S. in the number of vaccines they recommend to their residents, including Canada, Germany, and Japan.
Author: Ed Cara
Published at: 2026-01-05 21:55:39
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