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Trump signs executive order on vaccines, taking aim at childhood schedule
The order would recommend separate visits for each vaccine and split the measles, mumps and rubella shot into three doses, according to a White House fact sheet.
- President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing federal health agencies to overhaul childhood vaccine recommendations and reduce the number of vaccines routinely recommended for all children.
- The order calls for vaccines to be administered individually rather than in combination when possible, including splitting the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate shots.
- The revised recommendations would broadly recommend vaccines against 11 diseases instead of 17, while moving protections against several diseases, including influenza, hepatitis A and B, and some forms of meningitis, to high-risk or shared-decision categories.
- Trump repeatedly linked the changes to concerns about autism, suggesting that the increase in childhood vaccinations could be related to rising autism diagnoses.
- The order represents a major shift in federal vaccine policy under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while medical and public-health experts have warned that weakening routine recommendations could reduce vaccination rates and leave children more vulnerable to preventable diseases.
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