News|Videos|August 14, 2026

How New “Shared Clinical Decision Making” Vaccine Category Will Likely Increase Children’s Disease

In the second part of the interview with Sharon Nachman, MD, she touches upon how the administration’s shared clinical decision-making category related to childhood vaccines will affect the hepatitis B and rotavirus vaccines and the expectations there will be subsequent disease increases.

One of the newer elements within the childhood vaccine schedule is the shared clinical decision-making category. This category was set-up by the leadership of the current Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy as a way to limit childhood vaccines. The vaccine schedule was front and center this week, when President Trump signed an executive order around it, offering directives that mirrored ACIP’s and Kennedy’s wishes.

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