US President Donald Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office on Monday that limits the number of vaccines recommended for children - and during the event he made several misleading or false claims about the jabs.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had recommended childhood vaccinations against 18 diseases - but Trump's new order drops that to 11. It also advises splitting up the mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) shots.
We've looked into some of the president's claims about vaccinations.
Do 'little children' in the US get 72 jabs?
"In many cases we were requiring 72 jabs for our beautiful, healthy, lovely, delicate little children," Trump said shortly before signing the order.
After his announcement, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared a graphic, labelled "72 injections", showing a baby surrounded by needles.
But both of those statements are misleading.
Firstly, while federal guidance influences school-entry vaccine requirements, these rules are set at individual state level, so the exact number of jabs scheduled varies across the US.
And secondly, the 72 figure cited by the White House counts all the doses someone could potentially be given by the time they are 18 years old - so not as a baby or "little children".
This total also includes annual flu and Covid-19 doses.
How big are vaccine doses?
"A vaccination looks like the size of the bottle of soda poured into a little child's body," Trump claimed, when talking about MMR...
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