{
  "id": 495553,
  "title": "Trump signs order attempting to override CDC vaccine schedule and break up MMR shots",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/trump-signs-order-attempting-to-override-cdc-vaccine-schedule-and",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-10T19:06:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccines-executive-order-measles"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aiming to alter the childhood vaccination schedule, potentially overriding the authority of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The order seeks to break apart the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three separate shots, a process that is currently not feasible due to the absence of individual licensed vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella and the lengthy licensing process. Additionally, the order recommends administering all vaccines at separate medical visits, which could impose a financial and logistical burden on families and healthcare providers. The order also requires the MMR vaccine to be given at separate visits, emphasizing a previously unproven link between vaccines and autism, a claim supported by only six of the 17 routinely recommended vaccines. The executive order may increase political pressure on states to change their school vaccination requirements, despite the fact that the US has no vaccination mandates and that insurance continues to cover the shots.",
  "summary": "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that attempts to change the childhood vaccination schedule. The order recommends that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine be given as three separate shots at different medical visits.\n\nAccording to the White House, the goal is to administer childhood immunizations at separate medical visits, to the maximum extent feasible. The order also directs the nation's health department to improve vaccine research.\n\nPublic health experts have raised concerns that spacing out shots could lead to an increased risk of children becoming infected with a vaccine-preventable disease before returning for another visit. The CDC is the federal agency tasked with recommending vaccines, not the White House.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Guardian Health",
        "title": "Trump signs order attempting to override CDC vaccine schedule and break up MMR shots",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/trump-signs-order-attempting-to-override-cdc-vaccine-schedule-and-499422",
        "published": "2026-08-10T19:06:07.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "ABC News (US)",
        "title": "Trump signs executive order to change childhood vaccine schedule",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/trump-signs-executive-order-to-change-childhood-vaccine-schedule",
        "published": "2026-08-10T19:25:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Newsweek",
        "title": "What Is the MMR Vaccine? Trump Signs Order to Change Childhood Shot",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/what-is-the-mmr-vaccine-trump-signs-order-to-change-childhood-shot",
        "published": "2026-08-10T20:25:40.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Fierce Healthcare",
        "title": "Trump signs executive order to overhaul pediatric vaccine recommendations",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/trump-signs-executive-order-to-overhaul-pediatric-vaccine",
        "published": "2026-08-10T20:58:52.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "RTE News",
        "title": "Trump signs order reducing recommended childhood vaccines",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/trump-signs-order-reducing-recommended-childhood-vaccines",
        "published": "2026-08-10T21:13:36.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Le Monde English",
        "title": "Trump order pushes for overhaul of childhood vaccine schedule",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/trump-order-pushes-for-overhaul-of-childhood-vaccine-schedule",
        "published": "2026-08-10T21:35:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Ars Technica Health",
        "title": "Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don't exist",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/trump-signs-bonkers-order-that-cuts-vaccines-promotes-ones-that-dont",
        "published": "2026-08-10T21:42:56.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "France 24",
        "title": "Trump pushes rethink of school vaccine mandates and MMR shots",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/trump-pushes-rethink-of-school-vaccine-mandates-and-mmr-shots",
        "published": "2026-08-10T22:15:14.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Times of India",
        "title": "‘We’re reducing them’: Trump’s sweeping new US childhood vaccine order",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/were-reducing-them-trumps-sweeping-new-us-childhood-vaccine-order",
        "published": "2026-08-10T22:57:20.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "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."
}