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Chasing Life

Denmark's Vaccine Lessons for America

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

US health officials have recently reduced the childhood vaccine schedule, taking cues from Denmark's leaner approach. Dr. Sanjay Gupta travels to Copenhagen to understand why some Americans think Denmark's model is worth copying. Producer & Showrunner: Amanda Sealy Medical Writer: Andrea Kane Senior Producer: Dan Bloom Technical Director: Dan Dzula Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to a special edition of Chasing Life.

0:05.0

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, overhauled the childhood vaccine schedule.

0:12.0

They are now recommending fewer vaccines for most American children.

0:16.0

Now, one of the ideas behind this was to model it after other developed nations,

0:23.6

in particular Denmark, being the example.

0:30.4

So today, I'm going to take you along on a special reporting trip I recently took to see if what works in Denmark could, in fact, work here in the United States.

0:37.0

We'll head to Copenhagen right after the break.

0:40.3

This should hardly be controversial.

0:50.3

Six-month-old Sylvester is getting his second dose of vaccines.

0:56.0

Mom's decision to vaccinate him was entirely voluntary. Like almost everyone here in Denmark,

1:02.0

she opted in. In America today, the conversation is very different.

1:12.6

You're just getting more and more vaccines. Logic would state that at some point there's going to be a breaking point.

1:16.6

My husband I got together, I'm like, I'm not vaccine our kids.

1:18.6

He's like, what?

1:19.6

Here is what's in your childhood vaccines right now, gelatin from boiled pigskin.

1:25.6

We still haven't done the science.

1:26.6

That's just like remarkable to me, so let's just inject our children here.

1:30.3

There are some massive changes happening to the childhood vaccine schedule in the United States.

1:36.3

And one of the goals is to make the United States vaccine schedule more similar to peer nations.

1:43.3

Pure nations like here in Denmark, a country of 6 million people,

1:48.0

a country with universal health care, a country with a lot of trust,

1:52.0

and a country that gives the fewest doses on their

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