Medical Groups Sue to Reverse CDC's Scaled-Back Childhood Vaccine Recommendations

More than half a dozen medical organizations filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to overturn recent changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's childhood vaccine recommendations.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, and several other groups are behind the suit, which calls the revised recommendations "reckless" and "dangerous" and asks a court to declare them unlawful.

The Department of Health and Human Services made the changes earlier this month. Under the new guidance, vaccines for Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, and meningitis are now recommended only for children considered at higher risk for infection—a shift from previous recommendations that applied to all children.

The CDC also now recommends that parents consult with their doctors to decide whether to give their children vaccines against flu, COVID-19, and rotavirus, rather than recommending them broadly.