Oppose the federal decision to reduce pediatric vaccination recommendations, as this rollback will facilitate the spread of preventable diseases, increase hospitalizations, degrade overall health, and raise healthcare costs for society as a whole.

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Andrea Love is responding to the U.S. government’s decision to reduce the routine pediatric vaccination schedule from 17 to 11 diseases. The assertion that this measure will foster an increase in infections and hospitalizations rests on an extremely solid epidemiological foundation. Indeed, historical public health analyses conducted by the American College of Physicians (evidence type: observational data) estimate that routine pediatric vaccination campaigns have prevented more than 1.1 million child deaths in the United States over the last thirty years. For its part, the American Academy of Pediatrics (evidence type: expert consensus) notes that the lack of routine recommendations for viruses such as influenza or rotavirus significantly weakens collective vaccine coverage. Finally, cost-effectiveness models (evidence type: observational economic analyses) demonstrate that routine vaccination significantly reduces collective healthcare expenditures by avoiding major hospital stays. Although the final application of school vaccination mandates depends on individual states rather than the federal administration, Andrea Love’s warning is scientifically and economically very robust.

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