WHO says Trump vaccine shake-up goes against evidence

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order changing the country's childhood vaccination policy. According to The Conversation AU, the order reduces the recommended vaccines for children from 18 to 11 and no longer routinely recommends vaccines against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, rotavirus, meningococcal disease, influenza and COVID.

The order also calls for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) to be given separately once individual products become available and encourages separate medical visits for each childhood vaccine. This is despite there being no evidence that having multiple vaccines at the same time overwhelms children's immune systems, as per The Conversation AU.

The World Health Organization has warned that Trump's new child vaccine policy goes against decades of evidence, raising concerns about public health, as reported by Punch Nigeria. Various public health and medical organizations have also responded with backlash, calling the order "dangerous," "unscientific," "false," and "misleading," and saying it puts children's health at risk, according to Ars Technica.

Brief written by urgent.news from Punch Nigeria, Winnipeg Free Press, The Conversation AU, CBC News, Ars Technica — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.