"U.S. president Donald Trump's record-long State of the Union speech on Tuesday ranged over topics from immigration to the economy to military strikes on Iran to crime. But one pillar of his administration's second-term agenda was conspicuously missing: Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA."
"Under Kennedy, the Department of Health and Human Services and its affiliated agencies have sought to overhaul drug development and endorsed, without evidence, skepticism toward vaccines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention upended its vaccine schedule earlier this year to reduce the number of diseases that it recommends children routinely get shots for from 17 to 11."
"Although childhood vaccination rates have declined worldwide since the COVID pandemic, routine childhood vaccines remain widely popular. Physicians and other medical experts seem to be ignoring the recent CDC changes to the vaccine schedule."
During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Trump avoided discussing the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, a key second-term agenda item led by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The MAHA initiative has pursued removal of ultraprocessed ingredients from food, overhauled drug development, and promoted vaccine skepticism without evidence. The CDC reduced its recommended childhood vaccine schedule from 17 to 11 diseases earlier this year. Despite these controversial moves, routine childhood vaccines remain widely popular, and medical experts have largely ignored the CDC schedule changes. Recent HHS leadership changes and the absence of MAHA from Trump's address suggest the administration may be downplaying antivaccine efforts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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