The U.S. government has reduced the number of vaccines recommended for children, eliminating advice to vaccinate them against diseases including influenza, hepatitis A and B, meningococcal disease, rotavirus and syncytial virus. Furthermore, the new guidelines reduce the number of recommended vaccines against papillomavirus, reducing them from two or three to one. The vaccination recommendations against hepatitis A and B, meningococcus and syncytial virus remain valid only for some groups considered at high risk; for influenza and rotavirus, however, the recommendation will eventually be made by the treating doctor.
The decision is not a surprise given that the US Secretary of Health (the equivalent of a minister), Robert Kennedy Jr., is a well-known anti-vaccinationist who is radically changing and dismantling vaccine regulations in the United States. Furthermore, US President Donald Trump had also asked for the number of recommended vaccines to be reduced.
According to many experts, the cancellation of these recommendations could increase hospitalizations and deaths, which would otherwise be avoidable. In the United States, however, individual states, and not the federal government, have the authority to mandate vaccination of children. Kennedy Jr. said that families who want to get them will not lose access to vaccines and that insurance companies will continue to pay for them.
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