Trump signs order to space out childhood vaccines against health experts’ advice
President Trump has signed an executive order promoting spaced-out childhood vaccines, reviving discredited vaccine-autism claims.
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling for childhood vaccine recommendations that promote spacing out shots into separate medical visits. The move revives a long-held but discredited theory about vaccines. Health experts and medical groups have expressed concern about the order.
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Trump signs order to space out childhood vaccines, against advice
Trump has signed an order urging separate childhood vaccine shots, reviving debunked vaccine-autism claims and drawing concern from health experts.
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Trump signs order to limit childhood vaccines and split MMR shots
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Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups' guidance
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.