Sep 29, 2026 · 36 min · 10 segments
There was a time when the vaccine conversation in pediatrics felt straightforward: here's the schedule, here's what your child needs, and here's when they need it. Today, it's anything but simple. The…
We're in September 2026, thinking about our upcoming winter season in the Northern Hemisphere.
Let's shift a little bit here and start talking a little bit about the vaccine landscape.
And then there was an executive order in August of this year, you know, making some suggestions for the way to deliver vaccines.
You know, I want to start off a little bit with the punch line, which goes back to your introduction of, you know, it used to be.
I would say my recommendation would be go into your visits with the same mindset.
The point I want to make there is that the vast majority of parents actually are still vaccinating their kids according to the recommended schedule.
They trust you as the pediatrician, pediatric clinician much more than they trust the headlines.
So I would caution against going in with a mindset of, oh my gosh, there's so much chaos.
I'm going to have a tough conversation because a lot of parents just want to hear what you recommend.
In terms of what's going on, so going back earlier, so January 5th, there was this press conference that they attempted to change the schedule, move a bunch of vaccines into shared clinical decision making.
And so Those changes were stayed up on the CDC website to this day are the original recommendations from going back to July of 2025.
And what it's done, though, is create a lot of confusion for families and frankly, for a lot of clinicians, too.
The executive order that happened a few weeks ago, that didn't really meaningfully change anything.
We're in September 2026, thinking about our upcoming winter season in the Northern Hemisphere.
Let's shift a little bit here and start talking a little bit about the vaccine landscape.
And then there was an executive order in August of this year, you know, making some suggestions for the way to deliver vaccines.
You know, I want to start off a little bit with the punch line, which goes back to your introduction of, you know, it used to be.
I would say my recommendation would be go into your visits with the same mindset.
The point I want to make there is that the vast majority of parents actually are still vaccinating their kids according to the recommended schedule.
They trust you as the pediatrician, pediatric clinician much more than they trust the headlines.
So I would caution against going in with a mindset of, oh my gosh, there's so much chaos.
I'm going to have a tough conversation because a lot of parents just want to hear what you recommend.
In terms of what's going on, so going back earlier, so January 5th, there was this press conference that they attempted to change the schedule, move a bunch of vaccines into shared clinical decision making.
And so Those changes were stayed up on the CDC website to this day are the original recommendations from going back to July of 2025.
And what it's done, though, is create a lot of confusion for families and frankly, for a lot of clinicians, too.
The executive order that happened a few weeks ago, that didn't really meaningfully change anything.
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