Updated Pediatric Vaccine Guidelines Represent Significant Paradigm Shifts
A group of experts provide insights and answer questions to some of the more pressing topics around changes in vaccine schedules and policies.
This series discusses ongoing changes to the pediatric vaccine schedule and how this is impacting US public health, especially in children.
Over the past several months, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) have implemented significant changes to the country’s vaccine guidance framework. Under HHS leadership, including recent appointments to reconstitute ACIP’s membership, federal immunization policy has shifted toward individual-based or shared clinical decision-making for several vaccines. For instance,