calling announcing an overhaul the nation's childhood vaccine schedule another one

that's going to mean fewer recommendation recommended shots for all children effective immediately

it looks like uh in terms of the shots that we're no longer going to be or will be recommended

by the CDC, it just had the list here, rotavirus, COVID flu, hepatitis A, hepatitis B,

and the shot for bacterial meningitis.

Those are the ones that now they're saying will be part of a shared decision-making construct

between, say, a pediatrician and parents for their children.

So we've seen the CDC already pull back recommendations on other shots.

What has the result been?

And what's the likely result of this?

Well, I think what you're going to see in this paradigm, this framework comparison to Denmark,

just doesn't apply.

You know, Denmark, just to say it for our audience, very low child poverty rates, they have

universal health care with no cost barriers, smaller gaps between high and lower income families.

And so what does that mean to your question?

There's less of a delay between diagnosis and treatment. If they do have an infectious disease, let's take hepatitis B, since that's now part of the shared decision making construct, Katie. Hepatitis B in a place like Denmark, you can test a pregnant mom right before birth. And if they need, if they have a positive test, you can vaccinate them.

That does not work here in the United States.

We've already peeling back recommendations on hepatitis B within the first 24 hours

of birth.

We know Katie that if you wait to test and then vaccinate, saying in the case of a pregnant

mom about to get birth to her baby, That doesn't work. You have a lot of

delays in testing. You have a high burden of preventable illness when it comes to hepatitis being

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