{"id":10202,"date":"2025-09-03T13:19:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10202"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:19:21","slug":"big-shakeups-to-the-childhood-vaccination-schedule-could-be-nearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/03\/big-shakeups-to-the-childhood-vaccination-schedule-could-be-nearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Big shakeups to the childhood vaccination schedule could be nearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/03\/childhood-vaccine-schedule-at-risk-rfk-cdc-turmoil\/\">STAT<\/a> Kennedy\u2019s CDC advisory panel, set to meet this month, has signaled change is likely, alarming advocates. Public health experts are bracing for what could be fundamental changes to childhood vaccine policies that don\u2019t align with scientific consensus, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention undergoes a major leadership shakeup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousted CDC director Susan Monarez after she&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/28\/cdc-director-fired-behind-the-scenes-look\/\">refused his demand<\/a>&nbsp;to approve all recommendations made by the agency\u2019s vaccine advisory committee, whose members were handpicked by him. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic, has since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/28\/jim-oneill-cdc-acting-director\/\">named<\/a>&nbsp;one of his allies, former biotech investor Jim O\u2019Neill, as acting director.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT Kennedy\u2019s CDC advisory panel, set to meet this month, has signaled change is likely, alarming advocates. Public health experts are bracing for what could be fundamental changes to childhood vaccine policies that don\u2019t align with scientific consensus, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention undergoes a major leadership shakeup. Last week, health secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10203,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions\/10203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}