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Trump signs executive order overhauling childhood vaccine recommendations
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13:02Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for changes to childhood vaccine recommendations, including spacing shots across separate visits and exploring a plan to split the MMR vaccine into three individual doses.
The order calls for 11 diseases to remain in the core childhood recommendations, down from 18.
Routine COVID-19 vaccination is no longer recommended for all minors under the new framework.
The administration recommends spacing childhood vaccinations across five separate visits rather than giving multiple vaccines at once.
The order calls for measles, mumps and rubella to eventually be offered as separate shots, although separate MMR components aren't currently available in the U.S.
The administration frames the changes as giving parents and doctors more flexibility through "shared clinical decision-making."
This is a change in federal recommendations, not an automatic cancellation of state school-vaccination requirements. States retain authority over their own mandates.
Medical groups and public-health experts have pushed back on the changes, particularly the rationale for spacing vaccines and splitting MMR.
LiveNOW's Andy Mac discussed the decision with Dr. Richard Besser, former acting director of the CDC.
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