What top doctors now recommend for COVID, flu, RSV vaccines - USA Today
Leading medical organizations have released independent vaccine recommendations to counter conflicting guidance from the Trump administration. The guidelines, published in JAMA, aim to provide evidence-based clarity on COVID, flu, and RSV vaccinations.
Why it matters
Public health guidance is critical for vaccine uptake; the tension between political directives and medical consensus creates significant challenges for public health communication.
Hear this story As the Trump administration continues to offer conflicting messages about vaccines, top medical groups are stepping in to ease confusion with a set of independent recommendations.
The guidelines were released via a partnership between leading medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).
Some of these, like the ACOG and AAP, had already released their own recommendations about specific vaccines in the past year after the Trump administration limited COVID vaccine recommendations in 2025 and issued a memo in January 2026 removing universal recommendations for childhood vaccines that protect against flu and a handful of other diseases, including meningococcal disease, COVID-19 and hepatitis A and B.
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