{"id":370400,"date":"2025-12-26T02:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/370400\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T02:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:28:23","slug":"u-s-vaccine-policy-could-see-big-changes-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/370400\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. vaccine policy could see big changes in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/05\/cdc-acip-panel-entire-childhood-vaccine-schedule-under-scrutiny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vaccine policy<\/a> has become a key issue for the Trump administration, especially under the leadership of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who himself once led an anti-vaccine group.<\/p>\n<p>In less than a year, Kennedy has bulldozed vaccine policy precedent and government personnel. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration alike have seen shake-ups of their immunization work, often with little or no explanation.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2201750184-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-article-main-medium-large size-article-main-medium-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/12\/23\/trump-rfk-vaccine-schedule-healthcare-sector-considers-response\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump administration\u2019s plan to shrink vaccine schedule sends health sector scrambling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The changes have reduced access to shots, slashed funding for their development, and sought to raise new doubts about their safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-text\">STAT+ Exclusive Story<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-login\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"restricted-content-breaker-bg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765280600_844_stat-plus-breaker-bg.png\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"stat-plus-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/stat\/images\/stat-plus-logo-white.svg\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tThis article is exclusive to STAT+ subscribers<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tUnlock this article \u2014 plus daily intelligence on Capitol Hill and the life sciences industry \u2014 by subscribing to STAT+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-breaker-wrapper-cta mobile\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta mobile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tIndividual plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tGroup plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button view-all\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker view all plans\" aria-label=\"View All Plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View All Plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTo read the rest of this story subscribe to STAT+.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button restricted-button\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker subscribe cta 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Vaccine policy has become a key issue for the Trump administration, especially under the leadership of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[181607,244,13897,27202,246,97,252,253,10791,10649,247,1343,5599,16348,248,10650,3123],"class_list":["post-370400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-3-to-watch","tag-biotechnology","tag-cdc","tag-childrens-health","tag-fda","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hhs","tag-infectious-disease","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-policy","tag-public-health","tag-rfk-jr","tag-stat","tag-vaccines","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}