– Europa Press/Contact/Yuri Grybas – Billiards via CNP
Madrid, December 6 (European Press) –
US President Donald Trump on Friday ordered a federal “comprehensive review” of US childhood vaccination guidelines to “align with best practices” around the world, just hours after a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory panel rescinded its recommendation to vaccinate newborns against hepatitis B, a decision the businessman described as “excellent.”
“I just signed a presidential memorandum directing the Department of Health and Human Services to accelerate a comprehensive assessment of vaccination schedules in other countries around the world and better align the US vaccination schedule so that it is finally based on the standard of science and common sense,” the president announced in a post on his social network Truth Social.
Trump’s goal is to update the primary vaccination schedule for children in the United States “so that it is consistent with scientific evidence” and in line with “best practices in similarly developed countries,” such as Canada, Japan and Germany, without jeopardizing “access to vaccines currently available to Americans.”
The New York mogul stressed that “developed countries recommend fewer vaccines for children,” and criticized the American vaccination plan for children, which “for a long period” required up to 72 injections “for healthy children (…), much more than necessary.” “It’s ridiculous! Many parents and scholars have questioned the effectiveness of this calendar, and so do I!” conclude.
Trump’s action – included in a memo – comes after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine committee on Friday withdrew the historic recommendation to vaccinate newborns with hepatitis B in the country, a position that has been in place since 1991.
A White House resident praised the repeal and defended it as an “excellent decision,” arguing that newborns “in the vast majority are not at risk of contracting it (as is the case) which is a disease transmitted mainly through sexual contact or through contaminated needles.”
All this is happening after US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – who has repeatedly questioned the effectiveness of vaccines – expelled 17 experts from the committee last June due to alleged “conflicts of interest” and replaced them with those consistent with the positions of the Donald Trump administration.
The US government also appointed Undersecretary of Health Jim O’Neill to head the CDC, replacing Susana Munarez, whom it accused of lying after she said she was pressured to accept his anti-vaccine narratives.
However, these changes were introduced as part of President Trump and Kennedy’s own efforts “to restore trust, transparency, and credibility to the CDC.”
Kennedy, to whom Donald Trump has now entrusted this review so that it can be “done quickly and correctly,” has on several occasions positioned himself against several vaccines, including the Covid-19 vaccine, which he described as “the deadliest ever.” Likewise, he has come to support conspiracy theories that vaccines cause autism.