Children’s hospital director responds to new CDC childhood vaccination schedule

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Medical professionals and healthcare networks across Michigan are pushing back on the new childhood vaccine schedule published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The agency rolled out new guidelines last Monday, which experts have called a significant change to decades of precedent and scientific consensus.

For healthy children, the CDC is no longer recommending vaccines against six diseases that can be serious and even deadly: Hepatitis A, hepatitis B, influenza, meningitis, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and rotavirus…

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