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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber and Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Trump signs executive order with plan to reduce number of recommended childhood vaccines

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Donald Trump holds a signed executive order about vaccines as the health and human services secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr looks on. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Donald Trump has signed an executive order with plans for sweeping changes to the childhood vaccination schedule that would require that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to be broken into three separate shots, once it becomes available in the US.

The order recommends that all shots be given at separate medical visits, a frequent point Trump has made despite the safety, ease and lower costs of giving vaccines together.

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