{"id":20993,"date":"2026-01-08T19:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20993"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:26:42","slug":"the-big-plan-behind-kennedys-overhaul-of-childhood-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20993","title":{"rendered":"The big plan behind Kennedy\u2019s overhaul of childhood vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;In dropping government recommendations Monday that children routinely receive shots for four diseases, Kennedy\u2019s allies believe they are closer to realizing a top priority: a country in which people who claim vaccine injuries can more easily sue vaccinemakers for millions in civil court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manufacturers of those vaccines would no longer be shielded from liability, the plan\u2019s proponents assert, and could be driven from the market amid an influx of lawsuits alleging injuries from their products. In that scenario, the anti-vaccine movement would have a high-profile opportunity to shape the public narrative about childhood shots in courts nationwide.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy and Health and Human Services Department officials announced that longstanding recommendations that children receive flu, meningitis, hepatitis A and rotavirus vaccines were downgraded to a category known as \u201cshared clinical decisionmaking,\u201d meaning patients are encouraged to confer with health care providers before getting the shots.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all, the number of \u201croutine\u201d vaccine recommendations \u2014 which assume vaccination as the default \u2014 have now been cut by a third, from 18 to 11, since 2024.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/07\/the-big-plan-behind-kennedys-overhaul-of-childhood-vaccines-00713852\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/07\/the-big-plan-behind-kennedys-overhaul-of-childhood-vaccines-00713852<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In dropping government recommendations Monday that children routinely receive shots for four diseases, Kennedy\u2019s allies believe they are closer to realizing a top priority: a country in which people who claim vaccine injuries can more easily sue vaccinemakers for millions in civil court.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturers of those vaccines would no longer be shielded from liability, the plan\u2019s proponents assert, and could be driven from the market amid an influx of lawsuits alleging injuries from their products. In that scenario, the anti-vaccine movement would have a high-profile opportunity to shape the public narrative about childhood shots in courts nationwide.  <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy and Health and Human Services Department officials announced that longstanding recommendations that children receive flu, meningitis, hepatitis A and rotavirus vaccines were downgraded to a category known as \u201cshared clinical decisionmaking,\u201d meaning patients are encouraged to confer with health care providers before getting the shots.  <\/p>\n<p>In all, the number of \u201croutine\u201d vaccine recommendations \u2014 which assume vaccination as the default \u2014 have now been cut by a third, from 18 to 11, since 2024.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/07\/the-big-plan-behind-kennedys-overhaul-of-childhood-vaccines-00713852<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,1503,81,50,2089,811,170,526,925,410],"class_list":["post-20993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-evidence","tag-health","tag-medical","tag-rfk","tag-science","tag-trump","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20994,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993\/revisions\/20994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}