Trump Orders Vaccine Shots That Don't Exist
Pediatricians call the order "dangerous" as measles hits a 35-year high — 2,465 cases, and 22 of Utah's 29 counties infected.
Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday demanding the MMR vaccine be split into three separate shots — shots no company makes and the FDA has never licensed — and cutting the vaccines recommended for every American child from 18 to 11.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood beside him in the Oval Office while the two repeated the long-debunked claim that vaccines cause autism. The American Academy of Pediatrics answered within hours. "As measles cases reach a 35-year high in the U.S. and with cold and flu season quickly approaching, today's executive order on vaccines is not only disheartening but dangerous," AAP president Dr. Andrew Racine said.
The order — titled "Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans" — hands Kennedy's HHS the demolition. Hepatitis B and meningococcal shots shrink to "high-risk" children only. Flu and COVID drop to a conversation between doctor and parent. Every childhood immunization moves to its own medical visit "to the maximum extent feasible" — Trump himself prescribed five separate appointments at age one. Racine said stretching the schedule across more visits makes vaccination harder, not easier: every appointment is a copay, a morning off work, another chance to miss.
