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The president has signed an order splitting up the MMR shot and reducing routine childhood vaccines.
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
It is unusual, if not unprecedented, for detailed vaccine policy to emerge from the White House
During the executive order signing, Kennedy and Trump suggested that childhood vaccines may play a role in causing autism. But studies by the CDC and others have ruled that out. A fraudulent single study that claimed a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine was later retracted by the journal that published it.
Welcome back. In the news today: Trump signs an executive order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines; Iran demands war reparations; and Colombia searches for its missing after a deadly earthquake. Also, the world preps for a spectacular total solar eclipse.
By Jacob Bogage, Ahmed Aboulenein and Julie Steenhuysen WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling for fewer childhood vaccinations by limiting the inoculation schedule to 11 immunizations,