Welcome to Wellness Unmas. I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, and this is your weekly rundown.

It has been a very busy news cycle this week, and if you're keeping up, one of the big announcements

came from the HHS where the CDC is overhauling their entire childhood vaccine recommendations. Now, you have a lot of people cheering,

you have a lot of people criticizing, and I think most people are somewhere in between,

and they just want to know what's going on. So let's break it down. The main vaccines are still

being recommended, like the MMR, polio, chickenpox, detap, T. D.D.D.

Hib, pneumococcus, and HPV. Now, those are all still routinely recommended for all children

at various different ages. The only change there is the HPV. Remember, human papilloma virus.

This is a pre-cancerous virus that causes

the majority of cervical cancer as well as a ton of head and neck cancers, as well as others.

I see it every single day in my day job. HV vaccine in the United States has been recommended

to be two or three doses. The CDC is now saying

one dose in teenagers is enough. Where did they make this change from? Well, it's actually

supported by the science. About 80 countries only recommend one dose of the HPV vaccine.

A large study recently from December 2025. That's how recent it was.

Out of a different country, a five-year follow-up showed looking at 20,000 teens who got a single

dose versus two doses, the efficacy to prevent infection was about the same, really, really high, 97%, so obviously

a very successful vaccine in that sense. But one dose versus two dose looks the same. The only

caveat I have here is they don't necessarily have long-term studies, like 10 to 12 or 20-year

follow-up, showing that the one dose is comparable to the

two dose. So we will have to follow up the data on that. But for now, the data does support

switching from two to one doses. Now, here's where the bigger changes happen. RSV, hepatitis A,

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