Piedmont Pediatrics continues to recommend the evidence-based American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) childhood immunization schedule.

The latest HHS changes, decreasing the recommended number of vaccines from 17 to 11 are not based on any new trials or scientific studies and were announced without prior formal CDC input.

The AAP-backed vaccine schedule, the one our office is following, is based on decades old, meticulously reviewed data to keep our nation's children healthy and protected against acute and chronic infections, hospitalizations, and death.

We will continue to follow the AAP immunization schedule found here, and at reliable sources such as HealthyChildren.org and CHOP.edu.

Pediatricians everywhere will continue advocating to keep ALL children safe from preventable infectious agents, including hepatitis A and B, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), haemophilus influenzae, pneumococcus, polio, rotavirus, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (chicken pox), HPV, meningococcus (ACWY and B), influenza, and COVID-19.