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The CDC is no longer recommending all 18 previously recommended vaccinations for children. Instead, the CDC announced Monday it recommends all children get vaccines for 11 diseases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing the number of vaccines recommended for all children. The action follows a presidential memorandum ordering a review of the U.S. schedule.
Children who miss early vaccinations are far more likely to miss the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine by age 2, a new study found. The findings come as the U.S. recently surpassed 2,000 measles cases for the first time in more than 30 years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The messaging echoed a series of comments from September where the president falsely claimed the active ingredient in over-the-counter painkillers was tied to rising autism diagnoses