President Trump signed an executive order to reshape the childhood vaccine schedule, reiterating debunked claims linking vaccines to autism and making false statements about vaccine fluid volume and the number of shots children receive. He controversially advocated splitting the MMR vaccine, despite no clinical rationale. Top health officials echoed these "extraordinary claims without evidence," as the CDC director was conspicuously absent. The administration's assertion that the U.S. recommends "twice as many" vaccines as peer nations lacks support, with many European schedules being quite similar. The order also promotes "parental choice" while overlooking existing informed consent and exemptions, and misrepresents how "voluntary" European systems achieve high vaccination rates.
President Trump signed an executive order yesterday in the Oval Office calling for a reshaping of the childhood vaccine schedule. Speaking at the event, Trump repeated debunked claims linking autism to vaccines and made other false statements about the fluid content of vaccines as well as the numbers of vaccinations children receive in the United States. He also controversially urged a splitting up of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into separate shots.
STAT News reported that the President and top health officials such as Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy have made “extraordinary claims without evidence to support the remade federal agenda.”
Conspicuous in her absence was Dr....
President Trump signed an executive order to reshape the childhood vaccine schedule, reiterating debunked claims linking vaccines to autism and making false statements about vaccine fluid volume an...