California defends routine childhood vaccines as Trump pushes split-dose plan

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California defends routine childhood vaccines as Trump pushes split-dose plan
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California health officials defend the long-standing childhood vaccination schedule as safe and essential, pushing back against President Trump's plan to separate vaccines into individual shots. They note that state requirements, CDC guidance, and broad medical consensus (AAP, IDSA) have kept measles outbreaks in check, and warn that a split-dose approach would add visits and injections without evidence of benefit.

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