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
