Doctor Groups Seek To Amend Complaint Based On Latest CDC Vaccine Recommendations

( January 20, 2026, 1:38 PM EST) -- BOSTON — Characterizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Jan. 5 reduction of its recommended childhood vaccinations from 17 to 11 as a “drastic overhaul” effected “without following the evidentiary-driven, and legally required processes for issuing recommended vaccine schedules,” physicians’ professional groups and others moved Jan. 19 to file a fourth amended complaint to add allegations to their lawsuit seeking to set aside both the CDC’s earlier changes to COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and the appointment of new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)....