President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 10 calling for spacing out childhood vaccines.
The order recommends administering the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in three shots in separate visits.
“The Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations also recognize that the combined measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine should be administered in three separate single-disease shots once such products are domestically available and that, to the maximum extent feasible, all childhood immunizations should be administered at separate medical visits,” the order states.
The executive order calls for the attorney general to take “appropriate measures to further meritorious legal actions challenging state laws that conflict with states’ constitutional and Federal statutory obligations related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including, to the extent applicable under Federal law, States’ obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirements.”…
Trump Signs Executive Order Calling for Spacing Out Childhood Vaccines
