AXIOS December 5, 2025
President Trump ordered his top health officials Friday night to review all U.S. childhood vaccination recommendations and align them with the “best practices” from other developed countries.
Why it matters: It’s a vote of confidence in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked advisory panel on vaccines, which voted earlier Friday to to drop the decades-old federal recommendation that all infants receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
- The Centers for Disease Control panel “made a very good decision to END their Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendation for babies, the vast majority of whom are at NO RISK of Hepatitis B,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
The big picture: Kennedy and his allies have gained the power...
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