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In January 2026, the recommended childhood vaccine list dropped from 17 to 11. Not because the science changed. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauled the schedule, moving protections against hepatitis, influenza, and meningitis into an optional category. The burden suddenly shifted to parents to ask for them. Pediatricians watched decades of medical consensus vanish in a signature. A federal judge stepped in by March to temporarily block the rollback, citing the dismantling of the government’s independent advisory panel. Medical experts are now making one urgent plea. Stick to the traditional schedule.