Chet Nagle ——Bio and Archives--January 15, 2026

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) overhaul includes dropping recommendations for children’s vaccinations for rotavirus, Covid-19, influenza, meningococcal disease, Hepatitis A and B. Decisions about those shots will now be made by parents and doctors.

The CDC is also changing vaccine guidelines for RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), dengue, and meningitis. It now recommends those shots only for high-risk populations. And like Denmark insists on recommending infant shots for sexually transmitted cancers, the CDC will continue to recommend jabbing children for chicken pox.

The Secretary of HHS, JFK Jr., accompanied his modest changes by saying, “After an exhaustive review of the evidence, we are aligning the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule with international consensus while strengthening transparency and informed consent.” That implies aligning the U.S. with countries like Denmark.

Denmark has a childhood vaccine schedule consisting only of diphtheria, tetanus, (Meningitis), measles, mumps, rubella (German Measles), and HPV (Cervical and other sexually transmitted cancers). They are not mandatory and are administered by doctors at no cost to parents.

Okay, okay, I can hear the RFK Jr. fans yelling that his style is a careful slow walk, one small step at a time. But those fans can barely be heard over media noise and the voices of experts like Dr. Paul Offitt, a physician at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia and a shill for Big Pharma who said, “I think that the goal of this administration is to make vaccines optional. And that’s just wrong. It puts children in harm’s way.”

Then the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) weighed in to declare that it wouldn’t be changing their guidelines for children’s vaccines in the previous........

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