A group of vaccine-skeptical doctors and mandate opponents is challenging the CDC’s childhood immunization schedule in federal court.

The US Department of Health and Human Services said it is re-establishing the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, a panel of US health officials tasked with making recommendations on vaccine development,

The doctors also highlighted that vaccine recommendations from the CDC often become state law, even if there's little cumulative research to back up the recommendations.

A long-shuttered federal task force on childhood vaccine safety is being revived, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday

Despite an outbreak of measles last year in a Weston elementary school, Broward County saw a dramatic drop in its immunization rate for kindergartners in 2025. In Broward, only 82.2% of 2024-25 kindergartners got their required vaccinations — the lowest level in 15 years.

In Washington, 3,578 kindergarten students, or 4.8% of the 74,896 enrolled, had an exemption during the 2024-25 school year. A total of 2,551 kindergarten students, or 3.4% of those enrolled, had a religious exemption. (A smaller number had an exemption for being part of a religious group that doesn’t allow medical treatment by health providers.)