Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services (DHS) is again rejecting vaccine recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Trump Administration.
On Monday (January 5th), Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC announced a change in the childhood vaccine schedule, which DHS says is straying further from alignment with leading medical associations and organizations in America.
On this change, the DHS said, “The CDC’s new recommendations were based on a brief review of other countries’ practices and not based on data or evidence regarding disease risks to children in the United States.”
Rather than following suit with these non-evidence or data-backed changes made by Kennedy Jr, who is a well-documented anti-vaxxer, Wisconsin’s DHS is choosing to reject the recommendation and will stick with the long-used, evidence-based childhood vaccine schedule published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Furthermore, DHS Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ryan Westergaard said, “We have not seen any new scientific evidence that would justify changes to the childhood vaccine schedule.”
This is just the latest change or claim made by HHS Secretary Kennedy and the Trump Administration, which has received massive pushback from leading health professionals in the country.
Other such instances include the claim that acetaminophen use by pregnant mothers causes autism and changes to the immunization schedule for the hepatitis B vaccine.
These claims have been abjectly rejected by DHS, AAP, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for not being based on data or scientific evidence.
