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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber

UNBELIEVABLE: Astounding vaccine change puts us behind peer countries experts warn - The Untold Story

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Robert F Kennedy, the health secretary, at the White House in December. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

The bombshell announcement that the Trump administration no longer fully recommends a third of childhood vaccines means the US moved from leading globally on vaccination to lagging behind other high-income nations in preventing disease, experts say.

The move is the latest and most significant escalation against vaccines from Robert F Kennedy Jr, a longtime vaccine skeptic and current secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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