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The Economic Times
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US President Donald Trump's childhood vaccine order: What it does and what doctors say

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for fewer routine childhood vaccinations and directing the Justice Department to challenge state ​vaccine laws, a move physicians and vaccine makers swiftly rejected.

The ​order advances a long-standing goal of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and reaffirms a January vaccine schedule overhaul later ​halted by a federal court.

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