The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has overhauled the United States’ childhood immunization schedule. On Monday, the federal agency revealed new recommendations, reducing the number of diseases that all American children should be vaccinated against to 11,

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Federal health officials reduced the childhood immunization schedule from 18 to 11, removing vaccines for RSV, COVID-19 and hepatitis A, among others.

CDC officials said the revisions follow a directive from the Trump administration to align U.S. vaccination policy more closely with peer nations, such as Denmark, that administer fewer routine childhood vaccines while reporting comparable health outcomes.

The New Mexico Department of Health announced Wednesday it will continue to recommend its full suite of childhood vaccinations despite a recent shakeup of federal vaccine guidelines. The announcement comes on the heels of an unprecedented change at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slashing childhood recommendations from 17 to 11 total vaccines.

Here are five things parents and caregivers should know about the new vaccination schedule changes for children. The new guidelines no longer universally recommend children receive vaccines for rotavirus, hepatitis A and hepatitis B, meningitis (meningococcal disease), RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), COVID, and influenza (the flu).

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called it "the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history."