Trump signs order to limit childhood vaccines and split MMR shots

BREAKING: Trump signs an executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines, cutting the recommended list from 18 to 11, and splitting the MMR shot into separate doses. Medical experts warn it could lower vaccination rates and expose children to disease.

Eleven childhood vaccines. Down from eighteen. Trump signed the order today.

Here's the president putting pen to paper in the Oval Office — and listen to the reasoning, because that's where it gets wild. He wants the MMR shot split into three separate doses, called the combined jab "quite lethal," and compared it to pouring a bottle of soda into a child. Asked for evidence, he said some people say it is that way. That was the citation.

The CDC's own guidance says there's no published evidence that splitting MMR helps anyone, and the shot is far safer than measles itself. Doctors — Vanderbilt's Dr William Schaffner among them — warn more visits means more missed appointments means more sick kids. And note: this is guidance, not law. States set school requirements. The real fight is whether the CDC rewrites its actual schedule.

So here's my line: the CDC officially cuts its childhood schedule to eleven vaccines before the end of March.

This is Kateryna Kovalenko, reporting for HIT.

Source Read the original reporting at bbc.co.uk