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Trump Cuts Child Vaccine Schedule, Splits MMR Shot

Trump Cuts Child Vaccine Schedule, Splits MMR Shot

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The U.S. vaccine schedule was bloated and out of step with peer nations, and Trump's executive order finally fixes that by focusing on 11 core vaccines against the most serious diseases. Splitting the MMR and giving parents flexibility isn't anti-science — it's aligning with how other developed countries already operate. Hepatitis B and COVID shots no longer being pushed on all kids is long-overdue common sense.

Rewriting the childhood vaccine schedule without a functioning scientific advisory process is dangerous and unlawful, and a federal court has already moved to block it. Splitting the MMR into three monovalent vaccines that don't even exist anymore would take years of new trials, and kids on separate shot schedules complete their series at far lower rates. This executive order puts children at real risk of hospitalization and death from preventable diseases.


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