The CDC Recommends 38 Doses of Vaccines for Babies in the First 15 Months

The 2025 immunization schedule adopted by the CDC director Oct. 24, 2024, exceeds the historical number of recommended vaccinations for children by a wide margin. Whether or not these immunizations will create a healthier population, the pharmaceutical industry stands to profit handsomely.

In 1975, infants received 3 total doses of vaccines before age 5—the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines. A few other vaccines were recommended for children but not until they became school aged. Over the next two decades, many other vaccines came on the market. In 1995 the CDC recommended 25 total doses of vaccines for children up to 15 months old. With the latest updated list for 2025, babies will receive 38 doses while still in diapers. If an individual takes the CDC’s current prescribed vaccine regimen until their 18^th birthday, they will receive at least 95 different doses of vaccines.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared smallpox eradicated in 1980, after which time the world stopped vaccinating for it. Yet rubella was declared eliminated from the United States in 2004—twenty years ago!—but it remains on the vaccine schedule. Rather than just requiring it for travelers coming into America and Americans traveling abroad, it continues on for every child.

Unintended Consequences of Vaccinations

A scientific, peer-reviewed study in 2011 by medical researchers Gary Goldman and Neil Miller researched 30 highly developed nations including the United States. It revealed the nations “requiring the most vaccine doses for infants tended to have the highest infant mortality rates.” After this study received criticism, the same researchers conducted another study using 2019 data and found similar results. The United States had the most vaccine doses recommended for infants—and also the highest infant mortality rate.

Critics of the study accused Goldman and Miller  of not including a “full dataset” of 185 nations. However, Goldman points out that using Third World nations would skew results due to socioeconomic disparities. Issues such as malnutrition and substandard healthcare also contribute to infant mortality rates in those nations, variables for which they could not control in their study. A study by Bailey et. al. set out to reanalyze the Goldman study because they feared it would cause “vaccine hesitancy.” However, Bailey’s study backfired because it ultimately showed support for Goldman’s results.

In a 2011 report, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) set out to study adverse effects from vaccines. While they debunked some adverse effects, like diabetes, the study did find causal relationships between vaccines and some serious health events. Specifically, the report tied six vaccines to anaphylaxis. Other vaccines correlated with fainting and bursitis. The measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccines were shown to cause febrile seizures and arthralgia, a form of pain or aching in the joints.

We Need More Research

While government organizations deny vaccines cause wide-spread harm, little research exists that examines long-term impacts of vaccines, especially when given in combination with so many together. That is one of the themes of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s book The Real Anthony Fauci. Kennedy isn’t anti-vaccine; he wants to be sure big pharma isn’t driving decisions being made about vaccination recommendations. The intersection of corporate lobbyists and public policy leaves open the possibility that federal regulations will favor profits over individual medical decisions. He also wants independent research into vaccine risks.

In 1986 Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act that protected vaccine manufacturers from nearly all state tort liability. The Act also required the Health and Human Services (HHS) department to give a report to Congress every two years on the agency’s research regarding the improvement of vaccine safety. According to Kennedy, HHS “failed to test the seventy-one doses of vaccines on the childhood schedule against inert placebos.” In response to a legal complaint filed by Kennedy in 2018, HHS admitted they were not abiding by the requirements of the Act to conduct the research. HHS claimed inert placebo controls weren’t required to understand vaccine safety.

How can Americans trust the safety of vaccines when the organization responsible for oversight of that safety isn’t doing their job?

Mainstream media and government health organizations want the public to believe that Robert Kennedy is a radical. In reality, he is trying to hold the government and big pharma accountable for ensuring the safety of Americans. If you google Kennedy’s name, all you find are negative attacks against him calling him an anti-vaxxer, a term they derisively wave around like climate denier. If you want to learn more for yourself, read his books or go to Kennedy’s organization, Children’s Health Defense.

Every parent should take it upon themselves to fully weigh the risks and benefits of all medications their child receives. Medical providers have a professional obligation to gain informed consent from those they treat. Ultimately the patient, or their parent or legal guardian, must trust that they have all available information to make an intelligent decision on the medications they take.