A federal court froze the 2026 childhood vaccine schedule. Who writes it is the fight.
The advisory committee that shaped U.S. immunization policy for decades was replaced, then bypassed. In March a judge stayed the result.
Four months after a court froze the vaccine schedule, the US still has no functioning ACIP
The appeal is moving on an expedited track, with a status report due this month. But CIDRAP's vaccine-policy trackers make a pointed argument: a working committee could exist right now, if HHS chose to seat one.
CDC posts a new ACIP charter that drops the vaccine-expertise requirement
The committee's founding document now asks for a 'balanced range' of expertise rather than vaccine-specific knowledge, and adds review of non-vaccine alternatives to its mandate.
Pediatricians published their own vaccine schedule, and it no longer matches CDC's
The American Academy of Pediatrics' 2026 schedule covers 18 diseases and carries 12 outside endorsements. The federal schedule signed three weeks earlier lists 11 vaccines for all children.
A decision memo, not a committee vote, rewrote the childhood vaccine schedule
Eleven vaccines remain recommended for all children. The rest move to risk-based or shared-decision categories, on the strength of a comparison with 20 other countries.