Why RFK’s CDC Is Endorsing ‘Shared Decisionmaking’ for Vaccines

Why RFK’s CDC Is Endorsing ‘Shared Decisionmaking’ for Vaccines

The MAHA movement is recasting the term—developed in the 1980s to help protect patients against paternalistic medicine—in service of its own agenda.

RFK Jr.’s CDC Shifts to ‘Shared Decision-Making’ on Vaccines — A Policy Change With Real Consequences

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly altered the way it talks about childhood vaccines, and the shift matters more than the bureaucratic language suggests. Under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC now endorses “shared decision-making” for routine childhood immunizations — a framework that sounds reasonable on its face but effectively downgrades decades of firm public h…