Trump signed an executive order Monday calling for fewer childhood vaccinations and urging that the combined MMR vaccine be replaced with separate shots given at separate visits — despite no standalone measles, mumps or rubella vaccines being licensed for use in the US. Experts say manufacturing and testing separate shots would be costly and slow, with no demonstrated benefit over the combined vaccine developed in 1971.
The order doesn't actually change current recommendations, since the CDC, not the president, sets federal vaccine policy, and it doesn't limit access or insurance coverage for now. At least 28 states and DC have already said they'll follow guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics rather than the administration's preferred CDC direction.
Trump claimed the combined vaccines
could be quite lethal
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