This Trump loyalist's shocking decision put your family in the crosshairs

By Jake Scott, Clinical Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University.

The Trump administration’s overhauling of the decades-old childhood vaccination schedule, announced by federal health officials on Jan. 5, 2026, has raised alarm among public health experts and pediatricians.

The U.S. childhood immunization schedule, the grid of colored bars pediatricians share with parents, recommends a set of vaccines given from birth through adolescence to prevent a range of serious infections.