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7 stories from ACIP

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AJF OriginalSep 18, 2026

“Kennedy is the saving grace”: Trump moves to remake the childhood schedule, and what is actually in force

In the span of six weeks the President signed an order cutting routine childhood vaccines from 18 diseases to 11, then stood beside Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and proposed splitting shots into five smaller doses. A viral clip called it a schedule of 72 shots reduced to 11 “by the stroke of a pen.” That is the biggest shift in federal vaccine posture in a generation, and it is also not yet law. Here is the record, and the reaction, side by side.

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A presidential desk with a signed document and a fountain pen

ArticleAug 10, 2026

Executive Order 14420: routine childhood vaccines cut to 11 diseases, MMR to be split

This is the first time a President, rather than an advisory committee, has set the shape of the childhood vaccine schedule by executive action. Whatever the courts decide about the ACIP votes, the order itself is now part of the permanent record and worth reading in full.

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A federal courthouse with classical columns in daylight

ArticleMar 16, 2026

Federal court stays 2026 vaccine-schedule changes and post-June 2025 ACIP votes

The reform movement's biggest structural wins of 2026, the rewritten schedule and the hepatitis B birth-dose change, are on hold, not repealed. Tracking what is actually in force, versus what is contested in court, is central to reporting this moment honestly.

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A pediatric immunization record card and vaccine schedule chart on a clinical desk

ArticleJan 5, 2026

HHS overhauls childhood immunization schedule, cutting routine recommendations from 18 to 11

This is the structural change the reform movement has argued for over decades: not a single vaccine rolled back, but the schedule itself rewritten. Six vaccines moved off routine status in one action.

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StatementDec 5, 2025

ACIP votes to end universal hepatitis B vaccine at birth

The birth-dose recommendation has been a fixture of the U.S. schedule since 1991. Rolling it back is the most concrete change yet to the schedule the reform movement has spent decades questioning, and it happened through the reconstituted ACIP.

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ArticleSep 19, 2025

Newly appointed ACIP votes against combined MMRV vaccine for children under four

The first concrete schedule change from Kennedy’s reconstituted advisory committee, evidence that the personnel changes at CDC are already reshaping what shots children are recommended to receive.

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HearingSep 4, 2025

Kennedy defends CDC shakeup and ACIP overhaul before Senate Finance Committee

The clearest public account, under oath, of how far Kennedy has moved to remake the federal vaccine-advisory apparatus, and of the bipartisan resistance he faces.

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