Sixteen states and Pennsylvania's governor are now asking a federal judge in San Francisco to undo the Department of Health and Human Services' January decision to stop recommending seven vaccines for all children. An amended complaint filed Oct. 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California added New York and Vermont as plaintiffs and named Erica Schwartz, now director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as a defendant.
The seven vaccines protect against rotavirus, meningococcal disease, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Under the January schedule, they were moved out of the universal category and into "shared clinical decision-making," meaning a parent and clinician decide together, or into recommendations for certain higher-risk children.
