Josh Green, Hawaii's governor, argues that the CDC's change to the childhood vaccine schedule could lead to more disease outbreaks. Green says the CDC is putting the public's health at risk.

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“Going against the proven scientific evidence in well-designed studies is just very -- challenging,” said Dr. Lee Buenconsejo-Lum, a family medicine physician and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.

“This is not a debate in medicine. It’s a debate political. There’s a political agenda that’s driving all of this,” said Dr. Naoky Tsai, a clinical professor at JABSOM.