State health officials to maintain child vaccine schedule
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The funding pause could jeopardize child care and other programs that serve hundreds of thousands of households in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.
The Department of Health wants folks to know they can still get vaccines for their children. That includes several which were recently removed from a list of recommended childhood vaccinations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
The CDC's new vaccine schedule reduces recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, impacting protection against diseases like hepatitis and meningitis.