Doctors and lawmakers condemn Trump order calling for sweeping changes to childhood vaccines – live

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Medical experts and lawmakers are blasting Donald Trump’s executive order calling for sweeping changes to childhood vaccine recommendations. The order calls for fewer childhood vaccines and would require that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine be broken into three separate shots. It would also recommend that all shots be given at separate medical visits, promoting the president’s long-held but baseless theory that the shots should be spaced out. Jan Carney, president of the American College of Physicians, called the changes “problematic and deeply concerning.” “This executive order is part of a troubling pattern by the administration to attempt to unilaterally change vaccine guidance, particularly for children, rather than relying on…

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