{"id":11239,"date":"2026-01-14T19:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11239"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:15:26","slug":"the-cdc-just-sidelined-these-childhood-vaccines-heres-what-they-prevent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/01\/14\/the-cdc-just-sidelined-these-childhood-vaccines-heres-what-they-prevent\/","title":{"rendered":"The CDC just sidelined these childhood vaccines. Here&#8217;s what they prevent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2026\/01\/09\/nx-s1-5671750\/cdc-childhood-vaccines-universal-recommendation-rotavirus-hepatitis\">NPR<\/a> The federal government has drastically scaled back the number of recommended childhood immunizations, sidelining six routine vaccines that have safeguarded millions from serious diseases, long-term disability, and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just three of the six immunizations the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it will no longer routinely recommend \u2014 against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and rotavirus \u2014 have prevented nearly 2 million hospitalizations and more than 90,000 deaths in the past 30 years, according to<a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC11309373\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"&nbsp;the CDC's own publications, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;the CDC&#8217;s own publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaccines against the three diseases, as well as those against respiratory syncytial virus, meningococcal disease, flu, and COVID, are now recommended only for children at high risk of serious illness or after &#8220;shared clinical decision-making,&#8221; or consultation between doctors and parents.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"  Aae QcG r \"><!--   Aae QcG r  --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR The federal government has drastically scaled back the number of recommended childhood immunizations, sidelining six routine vaccines that have safeguarded millions from serious diseases, long-term disability, and death. Just three of the six immunizations the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it will no longer routinely recommend \u2014 against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, [&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":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-health-policy"],"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\/11239","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=11239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11240,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239\/revisions\/11240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}