White House plans a sweeping rewrite of the childhood vaccine schedule

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White House plans a sweeping rewrite of the childhood vaccine schedule
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The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to overhaul federal guidance on childhood vaccines, urging states to reconsider school vaccine requirements and splitting vaccines into multiple visits. The plan would narrow recommended vaccines, with 11 diseases proposed for universal vaccination and the measles–mumps–rubella shot split into separate shots, a strategy aimed at moving within legal bounds while challenging decades of guidance.

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