Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines
Washington: President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different single-disease shots and administering all childhood…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that advocates for spaced-out childhood vaccinations, promoting his theory that separate shots should be administered rather than combined. This order calls for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines to be given as individual shots at different medical visits instead of combined into a single dose.
The administration seeks to improve research on vaccines and present a plan to offer separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines for children, which is not currently available in the United States. Public health experts have expressed concerns that spacing out shots could increase the risk of children contracting vaccine-preventable diseases before receiving another dose.
The Trump administration claims that spacing out vaccines could address rising autism rates, despite scientific consensus that there is no link between vaccines and autism.
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