{
  "id": 493364,
  "title": "Trump to sign executive order calling for spacing out childhood shots",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/trump-to-sign-executive-order-calling-for-spacing-out-childhood-shots",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-10T18:53:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Associated Press",
    "slug": "associated-press",
    "url": "https://apnews.com/article/vaccine-research-autism-trump-kennedy-rfk-d10f81f221c4ae9f5b2f83dd0ee98b29"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order on Monday that aims to modify childhood vaccine recommendations, according to a White House fact sheet. The order will advocate for a revised approach to administering vaccines, emphasizing that each vaccine should be given separately during distinct medical visits. This directive also calls for the National Institutes of Health to boost vaccine research efforts, the fact sheet reveals, with the information initially reported by The Daily Caller.\n\nCritics, including public health experts, warn that spacing out vaccines as suggested by Trump could potentially elevate the risk of children contracting vaccine-preventable diseases before receiving their subsequent vaccinations. Trump has a history of doubting the connection between the number or timing of vaccines and autism spectrum disorder, an assertion that stands in stark contrast to the scientific consensus and extensive research findings that firmly reject any link between the two.\n\nThe implementation of these new guidelines comes at a time when school years are beginning across the country, and the nation grapples with a measles outbreak. This outbreak poses a serious threat of the United States losing its measles elimination status.",
  "summary": "NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday will sign an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits, according to a…",
  "key_points": [
    "Trump to sign executive order on Monday for spaced-out childhood vaccines",
    "Order advocates separate vaccine administration during distinct medical visits",
    "NIH to increase vaccine research efforts under new guidelines"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": "https://urgent.news/ill/493364.png",
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Arutz Sheva - Israel National News",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/likuds-new-candidate-apologizes-after-calling-trump-morally-corrupt",
        "published": "2026-08-10T18:59:47.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}