Trump signs order to limit and split childhood vaccines

The Trump administration has long pushed a discredited link between vaccines and autism.

32 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleSareen Habeshian

Getty Images Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (2nd-R), accompanied by (L-R) National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, U.S. President Donald Trump, Jayme Leagh Franklin with the The Conservateur, and Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Dr. Heidi Overton (R), speaks before Trump signs an executive order calling for childhood vaccine shots to be spaced out into separate visits during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on August 10, 2026 in Washington, DC. 

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US President Donald Trump has signed an order that calls for fewer childhood vaccines and also recommends splitting the mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three individual shots.

“Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today,” Trump said on Monday. “In those times, people were much healthier and of course the high rates of autism now observed did not exist.”

The Trump administration has long pushed a discredited link between vaccines and autism.

Multiple studies have found no link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

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