{"id":9620,"date":"2026-01-11T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9620"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:05:23","slug":"incomprehensibly-stupid-how-u-s-cuts-in-vaccine-recommendations-will-impact-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/incomprehensibly-stupid-how-u-s-cuts-in-vaccine-recommendations-will-impact-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Incomprehensibly stupid:\u2019 How U.S. cuts in vaccine recommendations will impact Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian doctors are warning that a new U.S. policy which slashes the number of vaccines universally recommended to all children could have devastating, and potentially deadly effects in Canada, including increasing disease spread through American travellers visiting north of the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was just incomprehensibly stupid. I was horrified,\u201d said family doctor and former president of the Ontario Medical Association, Dr.&nbsp;Sohail Gandhi in an interview with CTV News Saturday. \u201cChildren in the U.S. are going to die as a result of this move \u2013 and, worse, some children are going to have lifelong complications as a result of this move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the U.S. Centre for Disease Control (CDC) announced it will slash routine vaccine recommendations for all children from 17 down to 11, no longer suggesting protection against diseases like COVID-19, hepatitis&nbsp;A, Hepatitis&nbsp;B, influenza, rotavirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and meningococcal disease.<\/p>\n<p>CTV News spoke to several health professionals who say this will have a compounding effect, with vaccine hesitancy on the rise in Canada and immunization numbers dwindling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian doctors are warning that a new U.S. policy which slashes the number of vaccines universally recommended to all children could have devastating, and potentially deadly effects in Canada, including increasing disease spread through American travellers visiting north of the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was just incomprehensibly stupid. I was horrified,\u201d said family doctor and former president of the Ontario Medical Association, Dr.&nbsp;Sohail Gandhi in an interview with CTV News Saturday. \u201cChildren in the U.S. are going to die as a result of this move \u2013 and, worse, some children are going to have lifelong complications as a result of this move.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/incomprehensibly-stupid-how-u-s-cuts-in-vaccine-recommendations-will-impact-canadians\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Incomprehensibly stupid:\u2019 How U.S. cuts in vaccine recommendations will impact Canadians<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,288,18,1402,1270,1275,77,1301,80,49,14,1252,51,15],"class_list":["post-9620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-covid-19","tag-hepatitis","tag-hepatitis-a","tag-hepatitis-b","tag-influenza","tag-kakistocracy","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-trump-regime","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9621,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620\/revisions\/9621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}