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Here are five things parents and caregivers should know about the new vaccination schedule changes for children. The new guidelines no longer universally recommend children receive vaccines for rotavirus, hepatitis A and hepatitis B, meningitis (meningococcal disease), RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), COVID, and influenza (the flu).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has overhauled the United States’ childhood immunization schedule. On Monday, the federal agency revealed new recommendations, reducing the number of diseases that all American children should be vaccinated against to 11,