{
  "id": 495752,
  "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",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-10T19:25:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ABC News (US)",
    "slug": "abc-news-us",
    "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-executive-order-childhood-vaccine-schedule/story?id=135524851"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that alters recommendations regarding the childhood vaccine schedule. Specifically, the order proposes that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine be split into three separate shots. While there will likely be no immediate impact on vaccine access, the executive order is expected to face legal challenges. Trump, who asserts a link between vaccines and autism without evidence, claims the changes reflect the United States' gold standard childhood vaccination recommendations, although this is disputed by medical and public health communities.",
  "summary": "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that changes the childhood vaccine schedule. According to the White House, the order recommends separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three separate shots administered in separate medical visits.\n\nThe order also directs the nation's health department to improve vaccine research. Trump suggested that one-year-olds should have their shots separated out into five separate visits, though it was unclear if he was referring to all vaccines or specific ones.\n\nPublic health experts have raised concerns that spacing out shots can lead to an increased risk of children becoming infected with a vaccine-preventable disease before returning for another visit, as reported by Global News. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the federal agency tasked with recommending vaccines, not the White House, The Guardian US noted.",
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    "outlets": 9,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Guardian US",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-08-10T19:06:07.000Z"
      },
      {
        "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."
}