Evidence shows benefit of RSV vaccines as Trump officials push restrictions. As US officials move to restrict vaccines, including the shots to prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), more evidence is emerging to confirm how dramatically the RSV vaccines reduce hospitalizations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/11/rsv-vaccines-trump-kennedy
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Evidence shows benefit of RSV vaccines as Trump officials push restrictions
Shots to prevent respiratory syncytial virus recommended only for high-risk babies even as experts hail jabs’ success
As US officials move to restrict vaccines, including the shots to prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), more evidence is emerging to confirm how dramatically the jabs reduce hospitalizations.
Announced last week as part of new restrictions on one-third of all routine childhood vaccines, RSV shots are now recommended only for high-risk babies, instead of all infants. The Trump administration announcement was led by prominent vaccine critic and health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Four studies in Jama confirm these observations, echoing previous data showing a significant decline in hospitalization because of the shots.
This time of year, hospitals used be full of babies struggling to breathe because of RSV; sometimes, they would run out of beds for all of them. Doctors like Rupp are now worried restricting the shots will make RSV hospitalizations surge once more.
RSV vaccination during pregnancy is 70% effective at preventing hospitalization, and the shot given to newborns to prevent RSV was even better, at 81% effective, one study found. The newborn shot is more effective at preventing child hospitalization compared to the pregnancy shot, though both worked well, according to a second study.
For those interested, here’s the link to the two peer reviewed journal articles:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2843213
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2843212
They are so blatantly corrupt.
I would not be surprised if this is a plan to get more people into hospital so the insurance companies make more money.
It’s that bad.
To be fair, they’re not pushing restrictions. Everyone is still free to get the vaccines and doctors can recommend them to their patients. They’re just not in the child vaccine schedule (which I completely disagree with the move they’re making). The move is the entire reason why people are skeptical of vaccines to begin with; they’re the ones pushing the misinformation. Just wanted to clarify that people can and should still get these vaccines though.
The party of small government. What possible justification is there for restricting access to vaccines but not guns? This is rhetorical though I am getting dumber just by living in such close proximity to all of this anti human oppressive abuse.
They aren’t interested in the health of the nation. Just votes and stupidity.
It’s nice of USA to volunteer to be the developed world’s control group.
Can you get these vaccines as an adult?
Restrictions? I don’t remember seeing anything about restrictions. I read that some vaccinations were no longer mandatory, but they are still available to anyone who wants them.
He killed a lot of his supporters during covid.
Idk how he churns out more than he kills. But by golly i think it has to do with education being defunded and rise of social media
The cdc recommendations for RSV immunizations for infants and young children are not changing (as of this most recent change anyway). All newborns are recommended to receive 1 dose prior to their first RSV season if their mother was not vaccinated during pregnancy and certain high-risk infants are recommended to receive a second dose prior to their second RSV season.
They didnt care when their sons and daughters died from covid they won’t care now