California is going back to court because the Trump administration is violating federal law and pushing a reckless, unscientific childhood vaccine schedule that puts kids' lives at risk. These changes ignore decades of medical evidence and will lead to outbreaks of diseases we've already beaten.
The same week the CDC announced cuts to recommendations for vaccines, San Mateo County reported that an unvaccinated child has died from influenza. The child, whose age and name were not released by authorities, is the second flu death in San Mateo County this season, officials say. On Monday, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O'Neill signed a memorandum to no longer include flu vaccines, among vaccines for 10 other diseases, to be on a recommended vaccination schedule.