The Denmark Deception: How HHS Called an Outlier “Consensus”

The Gist: The Trump administration cut childhood vaccine recommendations from 17 diseases to 11, claiming it aligned with “international consensus.” That’s false. Most developed nations recommend vaccines for 12-15 diseases. Denmark—the single country they modeled our new schedule after—recommends 10, making it the most minimalist schedule of any developed nation. Even Denmark’s Nordic neighbors vaccinate against more diseases. This wasn’t alignment with peer nations. It was finding the one outlier that matched a predetermined outcome and calling it consensus.

On January 5th, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the CDC was cutting childhood vaccine recommendations from 17 diseases to 11. He called it “aligning the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule with international consensus.”

Here’s what international consensus actually looks like. Most developed nations recommend vaccines for 12-15 diseases:

• UK: 12-15 diseases

• France: 12-15 diseases

• Germany: 12-15 diseases

• Israel: 12-15 diseases

• Japan: 12-15 d…