U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday announced he was signing an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.
The order will recommend separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different shots administered in separate visits, and direct the nation’s health department to improve vaccine research, says a White House fact sheet, first reported by The Daily Caller.
Trump also said in an event at the Oval Office on Monday afternoon that one-year-olds should have their shots separated out into five separate visits, though it wasn’t clear whether he was talking about all the vaccines they receive or specific ones.
Public health experts have raised concerns that spacing out shots as Trump suggests can lead to an increased risk that children become infected with a vaccine-preventable disease before returning for another visit. Childhood vaccines — and how and when to give them in combination — go through rigorous studies, and safety tracking continues for years as the shots are used.
Separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines for children, which Trump said he wants kids to receive, are not currently available in the U.S.
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Even as the order calls for revised vaccine recommendations, states, not the federal government, have the authority to require vaccinations for schoolchildren. The order will advise states with school vaccine mandates to consider updating their laws to reflect the administration’s recommendations, the fact sheet said.
Last December, Trump ordered HHS to review how peer nations approach vaccine recommendations and consider revising U.S. guidance accordingly. The department responded by cutting the number of vaccines it recommends for every child, a move that has since been blocked in court.
In the months leading up to Monday’s announcement, Trump’s administration had largely pivoted away from talking about vaccine policy in favor of less polarizing topics like healthy eating and efforts to lower drug prices ahead of November’s elections.
Polls show most Americans still support school vaccine requirements, though Republicans are less likely than Democrats to see them as important.
Still, Trump has been fixated on connecting autism to vaccines. He has recently ramped up pressure on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to identify the cause of autism, something Kennedy had pledged to do with new research unveiled last year. Trump publicly prodded the health secretary for an update on autism research in a Cabinet meeting last month.
“How are you doing on the autism research?” Trump asked.
“We will have an answer for you,” Kennedy said.
Scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link between childhood vaccines and autism.
Monday’s order comes as school years are starting around the country and the nation contends with a measles outbreak that experts say could result in the U.S. losing its measles elimination status.
A president who chose a Health Secretary who is an anti-vaccine activist (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) and has a decades-long history with severe drug addiction, including a 14-year struggle with heroin.
The fact that they have to write ‘Do not drink’ on a bottle of bleach makes me realize that it’s possible for some politicians to be elected.
An 82% miscarriage rate is not that bad. Many of those could have easily blamed on COVID and climate change.
I am thinking about moving to Canada so I can enjoy life without the media attention. The Canadian government has excellent control over the media and are able to easily hide corruption.
Canadians are so nice that they don’t even care that their politicians lied about everything during the pandemic.
That Rand Paul guy is so annoying. He thinks he can question the science and calls my contradictory statements “lies”.
Now he released all my texts and they are wondering why I knew about the spike in miscarriages in January but I told the public in February that there was no indication or red flags about miscarriages.
I didn’t lie, the science changed again between statements.
I am the science.
The truth would have undermined our policy of forcing everyone to get vaccinated.
It seems that the Liberal troll lied…
“In 1980, American children following the CDC immunization schedule received 23 vaccine doses in 7 shots against 7 different diseases. In 2024, the recommended number of routine vaccines had risen to at least 84 vaccine doses in at least 57 shots for 17 diseases, plus the RSV monoclonal antibody immunization for a total of 18 diseases. This is more than other developed nations.”
Big Pharma sell toxic waste
SABOTEUR.
So he’s a doctor now? He knows medicine? I wouldn’t trust him popping a pimple.
Some of these comments here are a lot of misinformation.
No, the US is not the most vaccinated country in the world.
And no, babies in the US do not get 79 vaccinations.
Children in the U.S. receive roughly 30 individual injection shots from birth through age 18.
It’s very telling that these comments here full of misinformation are probably are Trump supporters.
Cover Canadian news.
All based on lack of brain cells instead of science.
So the poor child has to have multiple shots, instead of one. Nice. The kids will appreciate that
I had 13 vaccines when I was a baby but today’s baby’s need 79 vaccinations to protect them from all the new diseases they invented during my life.
Big pharma has never cured anything and the cure is sometimes worse than the disease.
Next time you see a commercial for Jardiance, the little pill with the big story to tell, read the side effects.
The big story is you can get swelling between the anus and genitals causing death.
About bloody time. The US vaccine schedule is insane. Multiple shots during single visits and if something goes wrong, nobody is held responsible.
US is the most vaccinated country in the world yet the population, especially children, bears the most chronic illness in the world.
Good!!