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American Academy of Pediatrics defy federal vaccine reforms, push aggressive vaccine schedule despite parental concerns

01/27/2026 // Lance D Johnson // Views

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In a historic break from federal guidance, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has publicly severed ties with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s childhood vaccine schedule, choosing instead to double down on a rigorous regimen of over 77 doses of vaccines before a child reaches age 18. This arrogant move comes just months after a reformed CDC advisory panel, purged of pharmaceutical industry ties, dramatically reduced the recommended childhood vaccine schedule from 77 doses to an average of 32. The new recommendations expand informed decision-making between healthcare providers and parents, introducing new categories for shared clinical decision-making and vaccines recommended for high risk kids. The AAP’s 2026 schedule, released this week, ignores these evidence-based reforms, insisting on a crowded calendar of combination shots and annual boosters for diseases like RSV, flu, and COVID-19, treating infants as pin cushions in a profit-driven medical experiment that many informed parents and sane doctors now reject.

Key points:

• The AAP has officially rejected the CDC's downsized 2025 childhood vaccine schedule.
• The AAP's 2026 schedule continues to recommend over 77 vaccine doses from birth to age 18.
• This stance contradicts a major federal reform that reduced routine recommendations and emphasized shared decision-making.
• More parents now argue against the aggressive schedule because it is not thoroughly tested for safety when multiple vaccines are administered simultaneously.
• The move highlights a growing chasm between institutional pediatric leadership and a movement of parents and practitioners demanding vaccine choice and individualized care.

A new era of medical choice confronts old guard dogma

The AAP’s prideful stance is a direct slap in the face to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to restore scientific integrity and parental autonomy. While Kennedy’s reformed CDC acknowledges that vaccination decisions belong to patients and parents guided by more well rounded medical advice, the AAP digs in its heels for maximum vaccine injections into kids. Their schedule mandates that babies be held down for multiple injections in a single visit, month after month, following a protocol that has never been comprehensively studied for the synergistic effects of its toxic adjuvants and preservatives. As noted by critics for decades, fewer than forty studies have ever investigated the entire CDC schedule’s safety, a fact the AAP conveniently ignores. Pediatricians are trained as foot soldiers for this agenda, with the AAP dedicating entire resources to teaching doctors how to persuade or coerce hesitant parents, rather than engaging in honest informed consent.

The schedule is confusing, crowded full of injections that a baby cannot withstand. COVID jabs continue to be pumped into kids, completely destroying the integrity of their cells and cardiovascular system. Many of the shots don't even work as advertised, with diseases like whooping cough making a comeback in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations alike. Even polio vaccines are now considered faulty, as vaccine derived polio strains are now spreading in the wild and infecting individuals.

This institutional rigidity has fueled a massive grassroots health freedom movement. Well-educated, higher-income parents have been leading a quiet exodus from the rigid CDC schedule for years, with many doctors and even public health officials privately following alternative schedules for their own children. They recognize what the AAP refuses to admit: vaccines are not a monolithic “one size fits all” product. As explained by physicians like Dr. Suzanne Humphries, vaccines differ radically—containing live viruses, killed bacteria, or viral particles, and often requiring neurotoxic adjuvants like aluminum to provoke an immune response. To question the necessity of the Hepatitis B vaccine for a newborn of healthy, monogamous parents is not anti-science fanaticism; it is a rational inquiry that the medical establishment punishes with ostracism, driving families away from mainstream care.

Sources include:

ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Publications.aap.org

AAP.org

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